Ok so im new to the third gen thing but im learning more and more every day. Im trying to finish the interior of my car so I can focus on drive trains so. bear with me please, and I tired to search but couldnt find anything.thanks

what is this CABLE??? It goes up around the colum somwhere.


Thanks for the help

 

Park-lock cable.

 

Ok this is gona sound really stupid but where does it go?
the shifter????
It comes from the colum and runs by the drivers left foot kickpanle. Is that right or do I need to re-route it?

OR
can I get ride of it totaly? the car is not a daily more of a weekend racer toy for the street

 

Actually you need it to tell the car when it is in park, reverse, neutral, or drive.....if you try to disable it you could run into serious safety issues.

Just put it back where it goes on the shifter, I attached a picture.

 

Not really.

 

elaborate please .......

 

It's an antitheft feature, not a safety feature.

 

So this cable isn't tied into the safety / neutral switch? If so, the safety neutral switch is in place to only allow the car to start in neutral or park....correct me if I'm wrong

 

No, the cable has nothing at all to do with the park/neutral switch. The P/N switch is on the shifter itself.

 

all it does is prevent the steering wheel from locking when the car is in drive.
it is disabled on my car because i installed an aftermarket shifter.

just make sure that if it is disabled, that it is all the way in, so that the steering wheel can lock and you can remove the key.

 

It prevents you from pushing the shifter button so you can't take the car out of park without the key.

 

thanks for all the help, I think im just gona put it back where it goes, It looks like the guy that had the car routed it under the driver seat so thats why I was confused on what it was

thanks again and im sure im gona have many more questions

 

Ok so a few more stupid questions.
How does the park-lock cable run? I tired to hook mine up but its 3 feet to long?????

and I have a purple wire and tan wire that were cut of under the driver side dash. Any Ideas to what they go?

thanks for the help
kyle

 

If they are the wires I'm thinking off they are the wires for the neutral saftey switch. If that is in fact what they are the car will not start without them connected togather, or installed properly on the neutral saftey switch. On a manual trans car they would be the wires for the clutch saftey switch. Kind of sounds like my old car... it isn't an 89 with a sunroof that you bought as roller in central NJ is it?

 

No bought as a roller in st. charles MO. Im made another thread in the engine swap forum with pics.

how does the park-lock cable run?
and so I just connect the wires together?

 

The park lock cable is suppose to run under the carpet and come up around the area of the center console with a loop towards the firewall. If those wires are indeed the wires I think they are you would be best to wire them into a neutral saftey switch so the car can only be started in neutral and park and not in gear, or to a clutch saftey switch so the car can't be started unless the clutch is depressed. However if you simply connect them togather it will work, you will just lose the saftey feature of not being able to start the car if it's in gear, that is if they are indeed the wires I think they are. If you could post a picture of them I could confirm it for you.

 

here is a pic, not the best but its all I got now



you can also see the park lock cable ran in the wrong place from the last owner

 

i have the cable hooked up on mine but i can still shift into drive and w.e gear i want without a key whats up with that could it be that i have a shift kit but i highly doubt it what do you guys think

 

is that car an auto or stick? That looks like a brake pedal from a manual tranny car..

 

Looks more like an automatic brake pedal to me.

 

Your joking right? it took this many post to figure out....

 

auto car

 

the park lock cable attaches to the base of the shifter and is actuated when you push the shifter button.

the purple and orange wires attach to a wiring harness that also goes to the shifter.

id post a pic, but i just replaced my shifter.
as stated earlier, if you wire them together, you will be able to engage the starter with the car in drive or reverse.
its really just a safety thing.

there should also be 4 other wires that go to this harness.
the piece is white or black plastic.
i will post asap with the order they go in


i wish you had posted this earlier cause i literally just tossed all the original stuff from my shifter and wiring...


oh well.
flea bay is your friend i guess.