700R4 shift cable stuck

[Dignan]

I have a 700R4 transmission with a hurst vmatic 2 shifter. Today when I got home and tried to shift into park it wouldn't go. I soaked the shifter in wd40 and tried to work it into anything other than N or D but it won't go. I finally decided maybe it wasn't the shifter and disconnected the cable. I get the same lack of shifting with a pair pliers on the cable and the shifter moves freely. So its not the shifter. Seized cable or something with the tranny?

 

[PopRichie77]

Remove the cable at the trans and see if it shifts, if it does and the cable still doesn't move, replace the cable.

 

[Dignan]

That is basically what I had in mind when I crawled under there. There was some rust on the cable. I soaked the cable with wd40 and then got back in the car and tried it. I worked it back and forth for a while and heard a pretty good clunk. I'm not sure if it was the tranny getting "unstuck" or the stuck cable breaking loose, but either way it started moving freely again. I lubed the cable pretty well and put it all back together and it has been working well ever since.