There is a spring dowel down at the transmission end of the cables that goes through the shift mechanism and the shaft that enters the transmission thereby connecting the shift cables to the tranny. Mines sheared off. GM says this spring dowel is a discontinued part. My car is in their shop and they are telling me to go to salvage yard and find this part. Any one know where one might find this part ... surely it's somewhat standard and can be found elsewhere.. Ideas?
Yes! New cables are way too expensive. I had the plastic centers broken out by a novice shop mechanic at a napa auto repair shop. After searching over 100 cars in a salvage yard and finding 98 of them automatics,and the other 2 had no cables. I decided to fix it myself. I aquired some aluminum the same thickness as the cable end. Cut & filed it to fit inside the rod end and drilled a hole in the center the size of the pins they sit on. Then bought some new "E" clips from the local hardware store (lowe's). I installed the new spacer then a large washer then the new E clips. Works like a champ! My cables were in good shape other than the ends being broken off. Saved myself over 330 bucks!
So my problem isn't cable related at all but is at the shaft which exits the 5-speed Getrag transmission. There is a mechanism that sits on that shaft that connects to the shift cables. This 2 piece mechanism turns the in/out sliding motion of the cables into a rotating and up/down motion to rotate and move the shaft up and down thereby shifting the gears. My problem is the spring dowel pin that attaches that mechanism to the shaft has sheared off and GM has discontinued it from their available parts list. So I've got a vehicle that won't go into gear because of a broken 29 cent part that is unavailable from the manufacturer. I've got a brother in law that works at GM trying to find out the size of that spring dowel so I can see if it's a standard part out in the industry.
Call the dealership back and get the part number (unless you have it) Then go to vintage parts dot com and enter the p/n. Dont worry there is no pictures but I ordered an intake tube and it came in about 2 days and was oem. Thats Vintageparts.com
Hmm,
Vintageparts.com brings up a book and CD ordering web site for car manuals. Is this what you intended? Or maybe you have an online subscription to a service through these guys.
try vinpartsinc.com sorry about that
why not just buy one from a hardware store? it looks like this right....
just get the diameter right and cut it to size.
Close to that but it's more of a coiled steel pin .... the one you point to may work as well. I found someone local to me selling a complete 2000 Getrag 5-speed setup that is out of the car ... he's willing to let me measure the pin so I can get the exact size. I can get an 11/64 drill bit to slide through the hole in the transmission shaft ... available sizes for pins are 5/32, 3/16 ... I'm betting this guy needs one that is metric. Curious thing to me is that GM discontinued this pin for my 2000 which is over the 8 year limit on (must make parts available for) ... wondering what a 2005 manual transmission uses?
getrag didn't change much, so that should be the same part on his thats on yours.
but regardless.. i'd try to find a cheaper alternative. you know a dealer part is going to be probably $15 if not more, when you could find something comparable for $1 or less at a hardware store.
So I measured a factory pin on the for-sale Getrag 5-speed ... it's 1/4" rolled pin ... All I'm able to force into my transmission shaft is 5/32" so obviously there is a piece of the old pin still jambed in there .... gotta get out the drill.
This is a some what common thing. People have used bolts, and steel pins as replacments.
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Brad Taylor wrote:So I measured a factory pin on the for-sale Getrag 5-speed ... it's 1/4" rolled pin ... All I'm able to force into my transmission shaft is 5/32" so obviously there is a piece of the old pin still jambed in there .... gotta get out the drill.
I would not drill it .... Before you do this just take a punch and hammer and drive out the old pin .. that way you don't drill out the hole wrong .. (bad angle , wrong spot )
At my work we always try to drive the pin out before drilling ..... If you do drill it out put the shift arm back on the shaft before you drill the hole ,, this way you can use the arm like a pilot hole to keep the drill bit in line ...
And John I will see you Fri and we will fix yours ... Later
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Thanks to all for the advice ... it's fixed ... after bashing away at it with a punch for 1/2 an hour to see it the remnant pin would push out we drilled it out. Works like a charm now
Brad Taylor wrote:Thanks to all for the advice ... it's fixed ... after bashing away at it with a punch for 1/2 an hour to see it the remnant pin would push out we drilled it out. Works like a charm now
We pushed mine out with a pin for a ceiling fan. Took a while because of the angel (tranny still in the car). Later we found a spot in the drivers side fender well that you can get a long skinny punch, or screwdriver through and line it up to make it much easier.
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