I had to muscle the hell out of the thing to get it to go side to side, then at a light when taking off i had to hit the shifter to get it to move over to third and fourth. (you know these never happen close to home.) is is possible for a cable to make shifting that hard? the Rod does not seem to want to move up and down, but that could just be lack leverage, but it did slip in and out of gear easliy enough when just moving the second cable by hand.