Changing shifter cable on 91 geo storm?

Answer 1

You just go to yank the old one out....or whats left of it if you broke it all toe pieces. I just performed this operation a few days ago. It is just a matter of getting the new one through the firewall. Right behind the radio all the way up against the firewall there is a rubber gromet about he size of a softball that the shift cable and the other shift cable go through. Yeah.....theres two of them. Just use a 10 mm wrench go around behind the radio dash box in the floorboard and pull the carpet back. You also will have to remove the center console. 4 screws, 2 in the bottom of the rear cubby hole in the center console and two right behind the ash tray. Under that you'll see the shifting mechanism. Remove it by taking out the four bolts holding it in. unfasten the two cables from it and set it aside. Under the hood remove the damaged cable from the transmission shift lever( on the side of the transmission). Pull out the old cable. Run the new cable throught the hole on the firewall. I had to cut the rubber gromet to get the cable removed from it. Then just reinsert the cable back in the rubber gromet and fasten the rubber gromet back to the inside of the firwall. (From inside the car under the dash behind the radio). Attach the cable ends to the transmission and the other end to the shifter in the cab that you set aside. tighten the nuts on the shift cable down good so that it is snugg against the shifter. Drive it down the road and see how it shifts. If it feels like the shifting is bottoming out just adjust the two grade 8 nuts that hold the cable to the shifter further down the cable towards the firewall. I recommend running them down till the nut is about 1/2 to 1/4" from the end of the threads at the firewall end. Put everything back on and that's it. Oh! When you run the new cable through run it through from the inside because the rubber gromet is fastened to the firewall on the inside and it will not go through the hole the cable goes through.