<VV> PG Cable

[John Kepler]

I've been watching this thread develop for a couple of days, and simply have
to interject an "Unpleasant Truth".  

Cables are funny things, and a PG shift cable is no exception.  A PG cable
that's leaking tranny fluid has other, more profound problems than the
addition of exterior sealing tape is going to fix!  It is, quite literally,
applying a "Band-Aid" to an arterial bleed!

That cable has the exterior plastic sheath, the steel-coil body, AND an
interior plastic sheath.  If the cable is leaking, it is because the
interior sheath has also worn and/or broken....not just the visible exterior
sheath.  This not only allows tranny fluid to leak out of the cable, but
defacto LENGTHENS the cable itself.  This effective lengthening of the cable
screws up the alignment and locational control of the Manual Valve inside
the PG, usually more than the internal adjustment can compensate for.  That
misalignment and/or "looseness" of the Manual Valve can then generate a
whole spectrum of "goofy" PG operating/shifting anomalies.

Short version:  A leaking PG shift cable usually needs replacement, not
sticky tape!

John