[Shotimes] Broken shifter questions

[Tom Teixeira]

At 6:23 PM -0400 9/5/04, Evan Kamlet wrote:
>Just wanted to double check what you guys thought about my shifter
>issue.  When I started the old SHO up, the rear wheels were locked up
>(E-brake sticking??).. anyway, I tried rocking it back and forth 1st
>then reverse, etc.  I went into reverse and then tried to shift back
>into 1st and noticed that there was no resistance with the shifter and
>it would only move UP and BACK, but not side to side.  The car is now
>permanently in reverse gear.  Does this sound like I'd need to replace
>the cable shifter or is there a chance it is worse than just the shift
>cable or is there a chance I can fix it without needing new parts?
>Again, the shifter has no resistance and will only move directly in
>the center up and back but not left and right at all no matter how
>hard I yank it.  Anyone with ideas, please let me know.  I have not
>had time yet to look under the car too see what came undone.

Likely to be just the shifter, or rather the ball-and-socket on one 
of the shifter cable has fallen off. I had this problem on my Taurus 
MT5 which is basically the same as the SHO cable shifter. You can get 
the shifter cable back on and hold it in place with a couple of 
tie-wraps. Long term, your best solution is to replace with a 
rod-shifter.

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