hey this is my first post ever on this forum and i have a 1986 v6 se 4 speed and have recently replaced the select cable(rodney dickman) and the shift cable(auto zone pioneer) and the shift cable works fine but the select is giving me troubles whenever i try to move it into 3rd or 4th gear it acts like nothing has moved at all and i only have 1st and 2nd i have moved both cables from the linkage around as much as i can and still can’t figure it out and i even confided in the manuel with the pins into the shifting mechanism itself and then reverse is where 1st should be and 1sr and 2nd are where 3rd and 4th should be and am really confused and would really like some help thank you also reverse is popping out of place i can get into reverse but it doesn’t stay in place
------------------ Brandon P
Patrick
JUL 23, 11:55 PM
With the cables disconnected at the transmission, can you move the levers on the transmission and get it into all five (four forward, one reverse) gears? (With the engine not running obviously.)
i can move everything into place but i cannot get find them when i mess with the linkage i even took it to a transmission shop and they said they couldn’t do anything about it the select cable lever on the transmission it self has a ton of play and i don’t know what the piece name is and can’t find it online anywhere and it’s super weird because when i had the old, bad select cable in there i had all my gears but i had to replace it because i then lost them
