Same thing happened to me. I picked up a cable from autozone and i had the same issue. When i compared it to the oem cable it didn't match. So i got one from O'Reilly and it matched the autozone cable exactly , but not the oem. Finally went to the dealer and picked up a cable. I was shocked at how smooth my tranny shifts now. For a long time i thought my tranny was going out. Turns out it was just the cable.