GRRR STILL NOT WORKING
At least the arm didn't break
anyway we also noticed that the two halves of the gearbox were misaligned, so we spaced off the holding arm (it was a 2 piece design) and its now aligned...tried again and still didn't shift, although I think it fixed a lot of friction issues and helped with torque..anyway still doesn't work. SO IDK whats up but I'm kinda a little bit very frustrated.
The cable is super tight, although as I'm using my cable I can't use any adjustment method that the regular ones use. Go figure... Any ideas? It also seems that when the kart is running and we use vice grips to manually pull out the cylinder with the cable in it, it WILL NOT budge. So wondering if the gears are locking?