if your's is just hard to turn, lube em like john said. my xb-2002 is an 88 model. The cables are stamped 1987. Steering was really difficult, Saw the luber and I lubed mine, made a world of difference. I bought 2 pieces of the plastic hose so I did not have to keep switching from cable to cable, put a quick disconnect on end of each hose, slid the hose on each cable,clamped em, removed the grease zerk from the other end of the cable, filled em with ATF and just kept pressure on and kept hose full..just remove the disconnect and refill the hose and re-pressue. worked great..