Help, looking for shift cables

[Outlaw1846]

I've been around the forum a little bit and seen the talk of getting different cables made and i keep reading about the differences in the cables but i loose track of which is which in all the discussions d see nothing current of a reliable source to get them now.

My Current Dilemma!:
My 1992 GT 3400swap/5spd broke the Shift cable (yes the forwards backwards movement) off at the end of the cable where it meets the 6in rod, on the transmission side if your curious. I am in luck that i know exactly how to get it out of the car and such as that was the original issue when i acquired the stock (road hard put away wet) car. I got lucky then and found a nice junkyard in Idaho that went out and got the cables off a car they had and sent them to me.

My Emergency: I'm in luck that it's the holidays because that means i'm home from school for now, but it's also bad due to business closures and delayed shipping. I have school starting back up after the new years weekend and that's a 200 mile drive back to the town were school is... i don't exactly want to borrow my family's spare truck for it as the gas would kill me and as my dad put it, we are not gonna let a broken shift cable keep this car down after all the time i've made him help me keep it running, relatively nice, and swap an engine into without 100% research (a Fun and stupid mistake on my part making a weekend swap 1.5 months of nights and weekends)

The Short of the Long!!: Need Shift Cable for 1992 Beretta GT originally a 3.1mpfi/5spd Or a equivilent fix that can last till i have more money and time ASAP

edit: didn't' realize i left the F out of the title....

[SummitBalt08]

I posted this in the Beretta facebook group.. hopefully somebody can help you out. I dont have any extra 5 speed cables or I would be more than willing to help you out.

[Outlaw1846]

Thank you Shawn, i much appreciate it.

The stuff i'm beating my head against a wall with is compatibility across the different Beretta's. I keep coming up with '91 cables and they look really close and i wonder if anyone by a snowballs chance in fire has tried them on a '92. the other problem is i can't seem to find official lengths on the cables via years, i realize that the cable length varies depending on manufacture but i'm curious if that's a end to end length or a cuff to cuff length.

The part i've found that seems like it could work correctly is http://www.amazon.com/ATP-Y-1514-Manual ... B004QBYVDQ
but it is really advertised on the other sales sites as for a 1991 and that is all... a call to one of the few major junkyards here in Alaska said the exchange system says it's the same transmission from 88-91 and then 92 is listed separately yet is listed as the same general transmission, so exchange sites just spit out "not compatible at me"

[Outlaw1846]

I believe i found some via Rockauto.com, i had two choices so i actually ordered both and i'll report back on what didn't work so that hopefully other people won't have to try so had at it.

[Rettax3]

Awesome finds, thank you! This is always such a quagmire for us five-speed (and er, um, six speed... ) people... Glad something is finally available over-the-counter for us.

The later-style transmissions ARE different, in that they are made by New Venture instead of Muncie, and they went with an internal, concentric slave cylinder, although I don't recall what year that change happened ('92 sounds about right though). Shift cables are compatible though, I believe. Please do update us all though, especially if I am wrong on that...

[3X00-Modified]

Stuff has been on rock auto for a while now... it's the quality of those parts people have issues with. They are not as tough as OEM and don't handle a beating well at all.

[Outlaw1846]

So yes the score was with rock auto, ATP Part # Y1515 was a shifter cable. my two biggest complaints are that the ends do not twist at all, you have to turn the entire cable and line one end up to a shift point, and the other end, in my case the inside end, we had to twist it to click onto the shifter and the busshing ends the give are super soft, and therefore don't hold well, that being my second complaint. i ended up cutting one of my busted cables end off to get the old hard busshing out and popped it into the cable and now it holds fine. i can now drive which was the goal and i'm thinking this summer i'm getting an extra one and looking into local sops that might be able to do a custom one.