Floor shifter cable- Adjustment?

[snomobeelr]

71 Stock Horseshoe shifter. TH-400. Original cable with the car, Problem won't go into 1st gear. everything else works fine - Park - reverse neutral and Drive. Even 2nd gear. When the cable is disconnected I can move the Trans selector and it goes in every gear from park to 1st. The only adjustment I see is on the trans selector bracket you can adjust the nipple that the cable connects to a little. When the Horseshoe shifter was out of the car I did take it apart clean and paint it and put it back together. But I verified it works. Any Ideas??

Thanks 

[LS5]

There are usually 2 adjustments or sometimes even 3 depending on the cable bracket that bolts to the tranny pan... the first one should be down at the tranny where the cable latches on at the one end. sometimes that has a slide adjustment where that nipple bolts onto. the second one will be at the other end where the horse shoe shifter is. as seen in the diagrame top right corner the writing that shows where the PAWL is, directly under that there is a 1/2 bolt or 7/16ths that you can loosen to adjust back and forth almost an inch where that end of the cable hooks up on the other nipple. the 3rd but not often found is the bracket that bolts to the tranny pan that holds the end of the cable where the rubber boot starts those bolt holes are sometimes oval instead of round and there is little play there, but not very often at all.

hope that helps.

Darren.

 

[snomobeelr]

Thanks Darren.  Anyone have a picture or know which way the U-Clip that holds the shifter cable in place on the horse shoe shifter faces?

[LS5]

 

 

Darren.