Help! 65 Valiant, may have screwed up my shift cables bad

So if I remove the pan will it make it easier to remove the shift cable or just easier to see what I'm doing? Of the two cables I think the one I messed up was the shift cable. Is there a source for them anywhere besides Year One where they cost $325? Now that I've messed this up all for trying to get the new steering column gasket on I'm probably just going to remove the whole column again and rebuild the coupler and hopefully I won't have to remove the shifter cables from the column it looks difficult.