Well, I must have had to wait for the planets to align perfectly or something. But I finally got enough light (with the help of halogens hanging over the engine compartment and my mini maglite coming up to see that low and behold the cable was broken. I feel like a dumb A$$!
I still couldn't pop it into neutral though. Is there some quirk that doesn't allow this? My next concern is trying to figure out if it was just time for the cable to break (130,000+ miles) or if there is something wrong internally that caused this.
When I think of tranny problems I immediately think big bucks, and my hysteria got in the way of logically and methodically checking everything from the shifter to the tranny before I freak out.

Anybody have an idea the transmission cable costs?


I am not so much a new CEG'er as I just am a quiet one.