requesting help. i lent my 2.5 5 speed se fiero to a buddy of mine and he ended up breaking my shift cable. I have gone to 8 different junkyards and found over 12 fieros, none of them with the same shift cable i have gone through craigslist and found nothing. I'm located in camp pendleton california, Tomorrow (the 22nd) is my last day in the Marine Corps, i would order the part but dont have enough time to get it. If anyone is out here from san diego to los angeles and have a spare shift cable please help me out I am willing to pay for it. -Hector Fierro

I won't be able to help, so Bump to top.

Also, what year? what 5 speed transmission?

-Dave

appreciate the reply tho. its an 85, isuzu 5 speed

Did you try " The Fiero Store"

I would but i will be leaving to texas tomorrow and do not have time to wait for the part to be delivered

A NAPA in your town might have one. They list them in their catalog website and I think you can do a search on their site for which store has it. Good Luck.

actually tried every single parts store here and the closest part is arizona, i appreciate the help everyone. i'll be setting the gear on fifth by hand and have my wife push me until i reach that speed to run myself every time i put some gas lol

Rent a trailer. Pushing will create a lot of damage. Maybe you could put the car in storage or something and come back when you get the part. Driving it now just sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Where did the cable break? Just wondering if you could patch it till you get to TX. Im thinking that it most likely broke at one of the ends? If so, you might could use one of those small sleves that fit over the end of the cable and uses a locking screw.If it broke off flush on the end, maybe drill out the hole where the cable is and screw/loc-tite/JB weld a small bolt in the end and clamp it into the other end of the sleve. Maybe give you an idea.

Just a thought. Good luck,

Steve
oops....just seen the date. Hope he made it.

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Reminds me of a time when I was working at a service station and a guy called up saying the right rear parking brake on his citation was stuck on and wanted us to come to his house to fix it. We couldn’t but offered to send a tow truck after the car. With the tow company we used it would have cost him around $50.00. He screamed “I’m not paying for a tow truck! I’ll just drive it down!” 20 minutes later we heard a tire screeching and sure enough there was Citation pulling into the parking lot with lots of smoke coming from the right rear as he was dragging the tire. He got out of the car and proclaimed, “see, a tow would have been a waist of $50.00 bucks!” After fixing the brakes we then had to gently tell him that he now had to replace a $90.00 tire (it was almost new as well) because he had flat spotted it down to the cords. Cheap comes out expensive!

so here is how it all went, i had to get my 2 fiero's home to texas, so what i did is have my wife come over with the jeep and tow the car with shift cable broken. I left at 11am, drove about 50 miles until the heat and 9% incline up the mountains towards 4,000 feet in altitude made the jeep over heat. it ended up happening 4 more times. well now its all downhill and everything is going better now 20 miles away from yuma, my fiero starts acting up, and keeps turning off, let is rest for a few minutes then drive again and not even a mile later it would turn off again. I think it was the fuel pump getting too hot or too hot and ready to give out completely. So I had no other choice but to swap the cars from the dolly, got the cars swapped after half our of trying to place the fiero with the fuel pump problem up on the dolly because it would turn off before i could set it on it. well finally getting pushed by the wife until i hit 50mph and drive off myself since i kept the fiero on 5th gear. Finally after taking off from swapping cars it was 5pm. We reached our first gas station and unfortunately there was a stoplight at the end of the freeway exit....... well the wife thought i needed a push.... she slams on the back and pushes me towards the gas station, i look in the rear of the car a tail light is broken and the back of the car is scratched up. after I told her a few words of how i felt... we took off again. We got on to the freeway and not even a mile of driving i get stopped by a cop. at this point i was extremely pissed off, the cop comes over i explain everything that just happenned since i left, he told me to take off one of the bulbs out and gave me a warning just in case another cop stops me, after getting my warning the cop gives me a push up to speed and take off, by the time we hit new mexico it ws already 2am stopped and took a 4 hour nap, and finally got home at 9 am in the morning. this whole drive was supposed to be a 12 hour drive, ended up being a 22 hour mission. now im home and im waiting on the shift cable, life is great hahaha.

That's almost exactly how we figured it would go, but without the getting to Texas in just 22 hours part. I made that trip twenty some years ago on the way to Ohio with a car I bought sight unseen in LA. I think it took almost a week just to Texas because I kept running out of gas (no guage, no money, no brains) and because I did dumb things like replacing the spark plug wires not one at a time without knowing the firing order, etc., etc. I'd say you're lucky and have a great wife.

The problem that you describe with the engine stopping sounds like it could be an ignition problem. The key to solving it is to look at the tach when the problem happens. If when the problem happens, the tach also fails to rise to 200 rpm during cranking (and then falls back again) you need to look at the primary ignition components.

You should be able to hear if the fuel pump is running or not. The fuel pump should also run for two seconds anytime you bump the starter.

Well my shift cable came in. I installed it on the black fiero, it was the wrong cable but i made it work. My shifting was so hard that i broke the cheap cable, so i,ve bled my clutch in so many ways according to the manual and many other fiero fanatics and still my shifting is hard. I placed a piece of metal between the slave cylinder and the clutch arm to have the arm partially pushed so the slave does the rest of the work. It works. So now to figure out the red fiero which kept turning off on the highway. At cold starts it turns on and runs fine. Once I drive for a while it looses power and a whinning noise hradually gets louder. Fuel pump maybe? Once again i appreciate everyones comments.

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Fiero SE 4 cyl 1985 no cat w/magnaflow
Mercedes C230 v6 2.5L 2007
Jeep Cherokee inline 6, 4.0L 2001
And yes my last name is Fierro.