ok so drove my car to my new house. parked it unpacked it and went to go leave and all i have is neutral.

checked it out my transmission shift cable is pooched. bushing is broke right off and looks like part of the actual cable is missing. im going to replace the whole cable so i need to know how hard is this. and does anybody have any detailed instructions on how to do this?

 

sorry its a 95 automatic

 

The Haynes manual is not a bad manual to use, you just have to jump around in the book to find the section that matches the step you are in for the Automatic cable removal/installation process. While annoying, they do this so that they don't have to repeat themselves 50 times for each procedure making the book have 1000 pages and be 6 inches thick and cost $300.

Difficult? Well, it depends on your skill level. If you are a fairly decent mechanic, no. If you are a shade tree mechanic, maybe. If you have no idea what lefty/loosey righty/tighty means, then don't bother - get someone else to do it.

It mostly involves getting a lot of "crap" out of your way so that you can undo the cable (both inside and outside the car), then thread the old beast out, thread the new beast in, and put the puzzle back together again - in the correct order.

 

thanks. just what the hubby thought. although he's not the most patient or mechanically inclined man he does get the job done with a lot of swearing and tool throwing. its either fix it or teach me to drive stick.

 

Let him teach you...more fun to drive

 

i agree i also think drivin a manual makes you a better driver and helps gas milage

 

manual will help you understand the car alot more, and will be more comfortable than that neck snapping ATX once you get the hang of things. give it a try, but if your like me its nice having a car that you dont have to worry about shifting while eating your fries from mcdonalds late to class, drinking that large coke all at the same. altho I love driving my other car which has a manual transmission, but during school. id rather not deal with it

 

fixed!! now my poor clutch on my other car is safe

 

Ah come on! Teach the lady how to "handle a stick"......

I am going to teach my 16 year old daughter in a few months - once she has a few good months of driving under her belt how to drive mine. Yes, and my clutch is brand new (and so is the motor). I taught my fiance now wife how to drive a stick in my BRAND NEW CAR that only had 300 miles on it!

Tell your wife that swearing while working on a car is way better then tracking down the @#$@#$ engineers that designed the car and slowly killing all of them by pulling off their skin and rubbing in salt....

I personally would like to find the specific individuals who decided to put the power steering reservoir immediately in front of the overflow tank, (leaving only about 1-1/2 inches of room and THEN making the three bolts to get the thing off one of THE MOST @#@#%@ irrating things you could imagine) and place their collective reproductive parts in a vice! You are guaranteed to wear power steering fluid almost every time when you have to replace belts, change the timing belt, work on the alternator, etc. I have several places under the hood that make WAY more sense, but as I am sure everyone knows - engineers design cars that mechanics have to deal with, and always have.

My dad has invented more hand made tools to work around engineers "clever" designs, and I have tried for years to get him to patent some, but he won't. Some of his creations are now standard tools......