you buy new ones. they have a sleeve that wears out, then it;s metal on metal. a lube job will only be a pretty short term fix. to even try and do it, you will likely have to pull them to try and use gravity to help move any lube down the cable. I'm sure others will chime in, but I've never had any success lubing old cables of any type, it is always a temporary fix.
Greetings, I can tell you a trick to get some more life from your shifter + gas pedal cables. Disconnect from both the transmission and fron the centre console. Get your shop vac going and attach the hose to the transmission end each cable they fit nicely into the shop vac hose. Get WD40 with the small straw adaptor and begin squirting it into the cockpit end of the cable. It will suck the WD40 through the cable and into the shop vac finish it off with some 3in1 oil. Not a permanent fix but will buy you a few months of use. ChezFiero
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Toddster Member
Posts: 20871 From: Roswell, Georgia Registered: May 2001
I'd advise against that. Plan A is new cables as mentioned above. But if you need a short term fix hang the cables on a nail and spray some Liquid Wrench penetrating lube in the top and let it run down the cable over night. WD-40 will dry out and get "gummy" within a month.
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ChezFiero Member
Posts: 81 From: Hockley Valley, N. of Toronto / Canada Registered: Jul 2005
Hence the latter....I have done this procedure , it was quick , clean and lasted about a year on a weeked driver. (87 GT) I had purchased original GM cabes soom after the temp fix and swapped them out.
finish it off with some 3in1 oil. Not a permanent fix but will buy you a few months of use.
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2farnorth Member
Posts: 3402 From: Leonard, Tx. USA Registered: Feb 2001
I'd advise against that. Plan A is new cables as mentioned above. But if you need a short term fix hang the cables on a nail and spray some Liquid Wrench penetrating lube in the top and let it run down the cable over night. WD-40 will dry out and get "gummy" within a month.
I agree, wd-40 is not a good lubricant. Actually I consider it to be more of a solvent than a lubricant.
Dave
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FormulaGT Member
Posts: 790 From: Santa Barbara, CA USA Registered: Sep 2003
Buy new ones! There's no way around it. The effort of removing and lubing an old failing cable and re-installing it is just is not worth it. Spend a few bucks at the Fiero store or other and just replace them.
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Intel Member
Posts: 752 From: Helsingborg, Sweden Registered: May 2002
I used the vac method on the shifter cables on my previous fiero but I used teflon spray instead. The cables felt like night and day and it worked for as long as I had the car, several years. But as everyone said replacing them is always a better option.
I tried some of that gravite stuff , its a temp fix, works well on speedo cables, but didn`t do the trick, replacements sound like the best option at this point...
