I'm just about fed up with this... I've been fighting with this for the past week on my 91LX 5.0
I've done some searches but could quite find the answers I was looking for.
About 1.5yr ago I put in a Fiore FWA and Quad... at the time, the stock cable was fine. 6 months later, it breaks.
Bought a vatozone one just to get me going, worked fine for a year. Now, it was fraying, so I got another. Ended up breaking 3 in a week. (I know, poor quality, but didn't cost me anything to swap them). So, before shelling out the 60-120 for a MM or stock one, I decided to see if I could reengineer one.
Went to a cable house and had them cut a piece of 1/8" 7x12 cable (seven strands, each strand has 12 pieces) and he crimped on his own stoppers and I reused the hardware from one of the busted cables. Supposed to be good quality, high strength, and he said it'd stretch maybe .5" at it's maximum load rating (supposedly like 1100lbs).
Well... put it in. Seemed ok, but then the tranny became impossible to get into gear. I'd get a couple of pedal pushes in, and then it won't go into gear. I keep having to back out the FWA over and over again to get any response with the clutch. I know it stretched some, so I'm gonna go ahead and order the MM cable.
My question... could it be anything other than the cables? Anything else at all? The clutch seems fine, a little lag accelerating in 5th from real low RPMs but seems to pull fine everywhere else.
What else could it be? Just in case?
I've done some searches but could quite find the answers I was looking for.
About 1.5yr ago I put in a Fiore FWA and Quad... at the time, the stock cable was fine. 6 months later, it breaks.
Bought a vatozone one just to get me going, worked fine for a year. Now, it was fraying, so I got another. Ended up breaking 3 in a week. (I know, poor quality, but didn't cost me anything to swap them). So, before shelling out the 60-120 for a MM or stock one, I decided to see if I could reengineer one.
Went to a cable house and had them cut a piece of 1/8" 7x12 cable (seven strands, each strand has 12 pieces) and he crimped on his own stoppers and I reused the hardware from one of the busted cables. Supposed to be good quality, high strength, and he said it'd stretch maybe .5" at it's maximum load rating (supposedly like 1100lbs).
Well... put it in. Seemed ok, but then the tranny became impossible to get into gear. I'd get a couple of pedal pushes in, and then it won't go into gear. I keep having to back out the FWA over and over again to get any response with the clutch. I know it stretched some, so I'm gonna go ahead and order the MM cable.
My question... could it be anything other than the cables? Anything else at all? The clutch seems fine, a little lag accelerating in 5th from real low RPMs but seems to pull fine everywhere else.
What else could it be? Just in case?