shift cables

[jdm92_accorn]

does anyone know if there is a way to adjust the shift cables to tighten them up?

[90goldcoupe]

Yes their is a locknut you can loosen and then turn the cables connected to your shifter assembly, but usually that never needs adjustment and isn't the way to fix the looseness in your shifter, you could replace the cable bushings on the transmission with solid ones from corsport and replace the ones on your shifter with new bushings from a dealer.

[johnl]

Yes their is a locknut you can loosen and then turn the cables connected to your shifter assembly, but usually that never needs adjustment and isn't the way to fix the looseness in your shifter,

All this will do is change the position of the gear lever, it can't cure sloppiness in the linkage. On the other hand if anything is actually loose down there then tightening the bolts etc should help.

you could replace the cable bushings on the transmission with solid ones from corsport and replace the ones on your shifter with new bushings from a dealer.

This may have some small affect, but if the linkage is noticably sloppy and the stock rubber bushes are not shot then it will be minimal. The only points at which sloppiness can occur (other than with shot stock rubber bushes) is in the pivots at the bottom of the gear lever, and the connections at the levers on the gearbox. You'd need to remove the lever boot and observe the shifter pivots as you move from gear to gear to see if there is excessive slop at these pivot points, and observe the cable linkages at the box itself.

Some slight degree of sloppiness in the shifter pivots is normal and there's not that much that can be done to improve matters (I'm not certain but I don't think the pivots are adjustable to account for wear). Fitting a short shifter will also reduce slop as felt at at the top of the gear lever.

[zack_odom]

There is a DIy on making a short shifter if that is what you mean....
Look in the DIY section.