I live in upstate NY in the Catskills and need some transmission help regarding the Bowden cable. One of the gurus on this site (Hunter) told me it is probably the bowden cable but I have been under the car checking it out and don't know where to go from here.
The car will not stay in forth gear until I have run it for 1/2 hour or more and sometimes won't ever! I manually have to move the shifter to forth to get it to go and most of the time it just slips into neutral. Once in a while it will catch but only after it is warmed up.
I have disconnected the downshift switch under the gas pedal and it still won't get in forth. The Bowden cable seems connected well at the linkage. Now that the weather is warm I would like to get under there and figure this out.
Any help would be appreciated. If anyone is close by I would be happy work out a trade or pay for some guidance. My brother owns an organic butcher shop, I work in architecture just in case anyone is into bardering.
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