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Vanguard
92 Subaru Legacy
AWD
Automatic, console shifter
When the car has sit for a week or longer, the shift lever is hard to
move back and forth. This is a straight-line shifter (no moving
around side indents, just straight forward and backward by pressing in
on a release button on the shifter handle). It feels like there is a
lot of friction in moving the shift lever. It goes away if I hold in
the button and move the shift lever back and forth a dozen times.
I've been told that there is a cable that runs from the shift lever to
the tranny (rather than a rod linkage). If that is true then maybe it
has gotten rusty, similar to a bicycle brake cable, and I could lube
it. If there is a cable, from which direction should I get at it?
From above by removing the console? It's been a long time since I had
the console removed but recall that the shift assembly bolted to the
floor so I couldn't see underneath. Should I jack it up onto stands
and get at it from underneath?
Lubing the cable by pointing the spray tube into the cable sheath
could work but often I've found (on bicycles) that you don't get the
entire cable and sheath lubed up unless you take it apart to get the
cable out of the sheath. So how difficult would it be to replace the
cable? Any special tools needed to replace the cable?
AWD
Automatic, console shifter
When the car has sit for a week or longer, the shift lever is hard to
move back and forth. This is a straight-line shifter (no moving
around side indents, just straight forward and backward by pressing in
on a release button on the shifter handle). It feels like there is a
lot of friction in moving the shift lever. It goes away if I hold in
the button and move the shift lever back and forth a dozen times.
I've been told that there is a cable that runs from the shift lever to
the tranny (rather than a rod linkage). If that is true then maybe it
has gotten rusty, similar to a bicycle brake cable, and I could lube
it. If there is a cable, from which direction should I get at it?
From above by removing the console? It's been a long time since I had
the console removed but recall that the shift assembly bolted to the
floor so I couldn't see underneath. Should I jack it up onto stands
and get at it from underneath?
Lubing the cable by pointing the spray tube into the cable sheath
could work but often I've found (on bicycles) that you don't get the
entire cable and sheath lubed up unless you take it apart to get the
cable out of the sheath. So how difficult would it be to replace the
cable? Any special tools needed to replace the cable?