impossible to get outta park

[pikey_cb7]

my friend just bought a cb7 its a 1992 4 door she has a few questions

1) the shift lever is like IMPOSSIBLE to get outta park she has 2 yous 2 hands 2 get it out but it moves through all the other gears fine
2) she asks what the glear lock key hole for beside it
3) how to replace a antenna motor/ swap it to a statnaty one

[C91BLX7]

1) get a new shifter cable, but for now, just take off the center console, and take the little seal off the shifter cable and spray some wd-40 down there.

2)Stick the key in and you can take the car out of park without the ignition on/brake pressed.

3) Just get a new power one from ebay, they are about 32 bucks.

[dlatino]

that happened to me before

it was a loose fuse in the fusebox on the driverside


is it an auto?

[slick]

i had to replace the cables in my old auto in january cuz the car would just go into any gear when it was in park i was confused at first but changed the cables and then bam it was fine

[pikey_cb7]

a fuse yea its auto?? what fuse

and can you please tell me how that affect it from coming outta park

[dlatino]

its hard to explain

in order to shift your car out of park you have to press the brake pedal

theres a sensor or something that senses the brake being pressed and thefore letting you shift out of park

idk which fuse it was

it was hanging out and i just pushed it in and i was able to shift out of park agian

i'll check tomorrow and find out which one it was


please correct me if im wrong

[slick]

does it come out sometimes and hard other times?

if so its the cables

[pikey_cb7]

shes only had the car for like 3 days now but i think it dose all the time but shes did not say when i c her ill ask her ill also look for the fuse was in under the hoor or on the inside

[dlatino]

shes only had the car for like 3 days now but i think it dose all the time but shes did not say when i c her ill ask her ill also look for the fuse was in under the hoor or on the inside

inside driverside

[slick]

if its hard sometimes then its the cables. i havent heard anything about a fuse coming out but how would it come loose if it was fine for 15 years im not saying its not it because hey it could happen. but most likely its the cables

[dlatino]

if its hard sometimes then its the cables. i havent heard anything about a fuse coming out but how would it come loose if it was fine for 15 years im not saying its not it because hey it could happen. but most likely its the cables

when i bought my car everything was loose so it could happen lol

but you may be right

[slick]

when i bought my car everything was loose so it could happen lol

but you may be right

well i guess if some nut job messed with the fuses trying to find out one blown and put them in it could happen

[amavis08]

I had this same prob

ya I had this same problems like over the summer and didnt have any money to replace the cable, but the problem over time eventually went away. At first it was so bad I no longer put my car in park and put it in neutral...let me know how things go. Also mess with the fuses most of the time its a bad fuse, also check the fuse box under your glove compartment. Now I just remembered thats what i did

[Losiracer2]

def. a shift cable...if it works sometimes and not others it's something mechanical vs fuse related. The cable is probably all gummed w/ grease or whatever from years of shifting through all the gears. It happens.

[YK86]

In my case, it was the shift cable at the end where it connects to the tranny. It was rusted inside causing the cable to rub the outer casing making shifting out of park very tough. Replaced it with a junkyard cable ($10) and everything was nice and smooth.