1964 Ford 4000 Slect-o- speed

Bigfrank54 · Jul 28, 2011

I'm looking for a shift cable and tube for my tractor.
The only one I found included the shifter along with the cable and tube.
It was almost $500.00.
Any ideas?

souNdguy · Jul 28, 2011

yep.. many sos are cheap to buy but have expensive parts ( due to them being hard to find. )

I have heard reports of others using stock tubing to make the tubes, and re-making the cables as well.. a-la- home brew.

soundguy

Dean · Jul 28, 2011

Your only viable options are a new cable from CNH, which, if available, will be very expensive, and used parts from salvage yards or other owners.

Dean

Anonymous-0 · Jul 29, 2011

There are quadrants available but unfortunately most salvage yards CUT the cable! It's a special cable as you have likely found out. However, I had a bad quadrant end and was able to drill out & use a set screw to anchor it into the quadrant. Key is that it is secure where it screws into the valve mechanism. Will take some time, but if you could mend / weld / splice the broken cable to a similar diameter speedometer cable and upsize the tube to allow for the splice, it would work to secure a std speedometer cable to the quadrant!
Have some parts but not enough cable to do you any good. Takes a lot of patience as well!

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