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| bondo |
 Apr 28 2006, 10:42 AM
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Practicing my perpendicular parking  Group: Members Posts: 4,277 Joined: 19-April 03 From: Los Osos, CA Member No.: 587 Region Association: Central California  |
I'm guessing there's nothing I can do about this.. but I'm asking anyways!
The cable that moves from the left-right motion of the shifter has more friction than I'd like. It's not a smooth and easy back and forth motion. Even if I straighten out the cable and not connect it to the trans, it still isn't super smooth. Is this just a characteristic of an 8 foot long cable? It's a 1/4" cable from mcmaster-carr, the corrosion restant type. Is there a way I can get oil into it? Would it help? The shifter I am using has a centering spring on it that should keep it sprung to the 2-3 plane, but it doesn't work at all because of the friction. It worked fine in the Celica it came out of, but the cables were much shorter. |
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| DBCooper |
Apr 28 2006, 01:58 PM
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14's in the 13's with ATTITUDE Group: Members Posts: 3,079 Joined: 25-August 04 From: Dazed and Confused Member No.: 2,618 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(bondo @ Apr 28 2006, 08:42 AM)  I'm guessing there's nothing I can do about this.. but I'm asking anyways! The cable that moves from the left-right motion of the shifter has more friction than I'd like. It's not a smooth and easy back and forth motion. Even if I straighten out the cable and not connect it to the trans, it still isn't super smooth. Is this just a characteristic of an 8 foot long cable? It's a 1/4" cable from mcmaster-carr, the corrosion restant type. Is there a way I can get oil into it? Would it help? The shifter I am using has a centering spring on it that should keep it sprung to the 2-3 plane, but it doesn't work at all because of the friction. It worked fine in the Celica it came out of, but the cables were much shorter. You can put a plastic sandwich bag over one end of the cable and seal it to the cable's jacket with rubber bands so it's open on top, with the end of the cable sticking up a bit into the bag. Hang the cable so it's stretched down and fill the plastic bag with either just oil or (better) a moly-oil mixture to above the end of the open cable. Leave it until you see oil coming out of the bottom end of the cable. |
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