Do you remember what kit by chance? Part number maybe?
thanks
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I bought this (4’) model first, but had to go back for the 68189 5’ cable, which doesn’t appear to have the brackets.
well crap! thanks.
I've hit my wall on this project and it's mostly do to shifter crap.
thatcabledude
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Dude, OEM trailblazer cable and slight modification to the brackets/shift lever at the trans is a slam dunk for the 4l60 trans.
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thatcabledude
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No, but I just snapped some pictures. They aren’t the greatest, but it’s pretty simple.
Flip the lever on the trans to the top so the push/pull interface between the shifter is correct. A simple mount in the trans tunnel on the passenger side to hold that cable will need to be fab’d up. Shifter works perfectly like stock after playing with adjustment a bit.
Stock GM cable bracket on side of trans (flipped to the top of course):
Factory GM lever flipped to the top:
Here is the simple mount that is bolted to the passenger side of the trans tunnel to hold the cable on that end:
Hope this helps. It has worked perfectly for 3yrs 30k+ miles.
thatcabledude
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The cable is long. It snakes around from shifter to trans like this:
thatcabledude
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I could be wrong, but remember it being a horrendous hack job (sorry rockrod, an early pioneer)
Several of the early swaps were. They were trying to make the stock shifter work from the driver side of the tunnel. That, or they used a aftermarket shifter. -Totally unnecessary with the 4l60 trans.
His was done from the passenger side. It's been a couple years but i remember straightening out the stock linkage plate so it stuck out into the bottom of the tunnel. I grabbed a shifter bracket off another transmission and bolted that to the bottom of the tunnel with a piece welded to it to extend it a little and then used a 1/4" nylock nut and bolt to fasten the linkage to the cable. My cable points towards the back of the truck, runs over my fuel tank and then along the frame to the tranny so there is only one bend in it. Rockrod's info was important for the distance center to center for the holes in the linkage. I remember 3.625" for some reason. I reused the cable from the chevy truck I took the motor out of.
I don't think that dude is on here anymore. I've used his thread a lot for info, but didn't like the way he did the shifter.
@thatcabledude thank you for the pics and stuff!
@thatcabledude thank you for the pics and stuff!
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You can probably figure out your own method from that info
Yeah I didnt like rock rods bracket on the tunnel. I kind of copied it at first, but it didn't work very smoothly. Eventually I redid the bracket so it's based off the tcase rather than the trans tunnel. It's much better now.
Backed out of the garage under its own power.
Drove it home from the exhaust shop. First time driving her in almost a year! Still some things to tidy up, tune and then she should be ready!
since this thread is specific to v8's, i assume that is what you mean. My guess is a gen iii vortec - lm7 5.3L. Mainly because that is what is really common and there are a ton in junk yards now. But, all the gm motors are basically the same block, similar heads etc. If you have emissions, pick your year carefully....some have egr, some don't, can't put a heavy duty truck engine in the light duty classification the 80 series is etc.
thatcabledude
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Love PFI. What a surprise to see this pop up :
Why did they put the afr sensor after the catalytic converter?
