my shift lever is very stiff on my 1971 chevy c-10 pickup. once i put it in the drive gear (an automatic trans.) its really hard to pull back on the shift lever nad get into park. i can go in by the motor and move the lever on the steering column very easily by hand to get it back into park but doing it inside the cab takes a lot of force. is the shift lever able to be lubricated there at the column where it goes in or is it farther down the shaft? when its cold its even worse.

Curt Stadtlander, December 2005

I have a s10 and once I replaced the shift cable it was still stiff and there was a pivot point in the colum where cable attaches to and I lubed it and everything was fine....just need to look at pivot points and make sure the cable isn`t binding anywhere especically if you`ve had work done in the area of colum or cable

bg, December 2005