My brother is having some shifter trouble with the stiffness from old shifter cables. When that happened to me with the little 96 Cherokee, I replaced the cables with new cables. My brother has read that he can take an air compressor and set it at 30 pounds, put some oil in the hose, clamp it to the shifter hose, and force oil through the cables to fix the hard shifting. I never heard of that before.... Has anybody ever tried that and if so did it work or is he spinning his wheels? Thanks.
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I did something similar. I took a hose and put it on the motor side of the cable over all the connection and hose clamped it to the cable. Then I took a bottle of fluid and put it on the hose and squeezed the fluid thru. Same concept but probably messier than what your talking about. It worked alright on mine
Did it on stiff steering cables, worked ok.
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It will help for a while but can sure make a mess if your not careful.
The problem is all the tight shifting that has already occurred may have stretched the cabling or at least fatigued the metal.
Even if you get enough lubricant into the line it's only temporary.
Get new cables. They are fairly inexpensive.
One of those items that's not worth messing with.
First make sure it's the cable and not the shifter or the transmission lever. If it is the cable, the best and easiest thing to do is replace it. It's really the only way to go and not leave you stranded some where on the lake with a stuck or broken cable !!
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Agree 100 percent , nothing works as good as new cables .Originally Posted by friogatto
New cable is cheaper than dropping the cover into rough water to do a manual shift. Watched that happen.
If I were going to lube the cable I'd use a dry lube.
New and be done with it....been there done that..JMHO
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