Evil Shift Cables!!!

[Uglypedro]

This makes no sense and couldn't find any other posts with similar trouble.

67 Barracuda with Crate 408 (360) and new 904. Installing B&M Pro Ratchet shifter. The trouble is with the linkage: seems like bell housing (torque converter) is too close to the linkage to allow the shifter cable to enter the B&M supplied bracket (that attaches to the front driver side of the tranny fluid revivor) straight on. Because the bell housing is so close to the bracket, the cable can only enter at an angle. Of course, that doesnt work. Doesnt matter which way the cable is routed from the shifter, or how long it is, because when it enter the bracket, it can only do so at an angle.

Seems like I'd either have to have a much more flexible cable or to come in from the rear, or more likely, I'm doing something wrong.

I can supply pics if that would help.

 

[rbkt65]

pics are worth 1000 words.

 

[j par]

This sounds like the basic trouble I've had with every single aftermarket part I've put on my car and anyone else's...
" FIGURE IT OUT.."
It's kind of the part i've grown to like about the hobby...

 

[j par]

We buy some fancy engine and some fancy transmissions and some fancy shifter, and pay all that money for and it's supposed to all work together.....


Bahahahahahahahaha.....

 

[barbee6043]

Just like us humans,,, generic and one size fits all!!

 

[j par]

Okay, now that I'm done giving you s*** Everyone i've had, it's been very precarious.... Very....
I think I recall some spacers and longer bolts for the bracket. To volt up through the pan... that'll bring it down a little bit...
Also I think the shift arm maybe customized and bent down a little bit. As the bracket will be a little lower as well so as it comes out, it not only comes out but does a little kink downways and back flat again ...

 

[j par]

The above methods never gave me great clarence. It just made it less kinked, just barely able to work....

 

[A body]

Generic shift cable pict from da web….. so where’s your issue?

Personally I found these brackets a huge pita…. Some headers like to try and share that space and messing with the shifter to drop the pan I was never a fan of..

 

[MV8]

Good time to lube the new morse cable while it is off.
If you have a steel pan, don't forget the washers in-between.

 

[Uglypedro]

Guess I was hoping someone would say, "So-in-so makes a more flexible cable." or something to that effect. But as someone replied, "You spend all this money, you expect things to work like they say....." Just don't have faith in something you had to jerry rigged together. Plus it looks like ***. Friend suggested using bicycle cables! Told him to get off my driveway. haha.
Gonna give bending the bracket out a bit and see how that works.