"Kai" <kainip@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The symptom is hard to move from Park to R or R to park. I searched
> all the post on this problem, the answer is to replace the shifter
> cable, but no detail instructions. I did it last night in 3 hours, I
> can do it now in 1 hour. Here are the steps.
> 1. remove centre console 6 screws.
> 2. lower the exhaust heat shield. remove 2 10mm nuts on the front, 2
> 10mm screws on the middle and loosen 2 screws on the back only, these
> two holes on the heat shield are slotted, so the heat shield can slide
> back and forth a little.
> 3. once the heat shield is lowered, sitting on top of the Cat
> converter, you can see two shifter cable mounting 10mm bolts and one
> 10mm cable clip bolts in front of it. remove all three bolts. The 3/8
> ratchet can reach in ok.
> 4. remove the shifter cable cover bolts at the transmission end. Four
> bolts, three 13mm (I think, may be 12mm, don't remember) and one 10mm.
> 5. remove one cotter pin and lift out the small lever plate at the end
> of the shifter cable, (don't remove that red painted nut on the shaft
> that go into the transmission),the shifter cable is now free from the
> housing. Remove the small bushing inside the hole on the end of the
> shifter cable. Put this bushing onto the new cable.
> 6. go inside the car and remove the spring clip at the end of the
> cable, just lift it out with a screw driver and then remove the two
> bolts that secure the cable. The shifter cable is now completely free,
> you can pull it out from underneath the car now.
>
> Install in reverse order. You probably need a new cotter pin if you
> broke it while removing it. I just reused the old one. No adjustment
> is needed afterward, the new after market cable is exact fit.
> $65.00Can in Toronto. I don't know how much is the dealer one cost.
> Probably an arm and a leg, I didn't bother to call.
> I put up with this problem for a long time, because the book said you
> need to remove the exhaust pipe to do it. The Cat converter is rusted
> on solid to the pipe, I don't think I can take it out. But the cable
> getting so tight now, I have to do it. You don't need to remove the
> exhaust system at all, it has enough room to work once the heat shield
> is lowered.
>
> I hope this information may help others to tackle this project.
>
> Kai

hi,
glad you succeeded with your cable change.
i seem to be missing something here ( my fault, old age = addled brain )
did you replace the whole thing, there appear to be twin cables on the
drawing i'm looking at.
if makes any difference the part no. is 54310-SM4-003, is this the one you
used.
many thanks.