Parking lock cable

Jonas

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1965 300.
Question from someone that has not done this before. Removed the 727 in order to change some seals and go through it.
The issue is the parking lock cable, first are you suposed to get it out from the housing cover?
I have removed the cover and loosened the clamp bolt and tapped it both lightly and later on a little harder. But the cable seems to be totally stuck in the cover no matter the position of the clamp bolt.
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That bolt in the cover needs to come out first before the cable will pull out. Put the nut back on the bolt and screw it down till the nut is flush with the thread, then tap it with a hammer to loosen it. Once the bolt is out, you shouldn't have any troubles working the cable out of the housing.
 
Thanks..will try, have but will, again.

The thing will simply not come out no matter what, stripped the threads of the nut eventually..so the guy doing the trans will have to do without the housing.
 
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Does anybody happen to know the thread size on that bolt? The nut is stripped and the cable still attached to the housing so i cant bring it with me to look for a new nut..
Positive is that the trans is back and ready to be put in.
 
It's 1/4", but I'm pretty sure it's NF or 28 tpi. Just looked last night but forgot to come on and update.
 
Manage to break the cable so much that it leaks oil..so anyone have a source for a new parking lock cable? "Cheapest" I've found so far is about $330..
 
Ordered cables.
By the way the end cable housing was so stuck in the transmission that I had to remove the housing from the trans and using a hammer and a mandrel I had to really whack on it to get it out...I'm guessing 55 years of some kind of galvanic corrosion did the trick...
 
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