Kick-down cable adjustment
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Racer
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Kick-down cable adjustment
I know how to adjust the kick-down on an 85 and 87, but on my 94 I am not 100% certain. Do I just unlock the TV cable and slide it towards the front of the car a bit? Unlike the 91-93, I only have the one cable going to the throttle on the 94. Any advice would be appreciated. Just trying to get more response from the throttle with more rpm between gears...
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Racer
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okay, good info thx... So there is an adjustment on what is I presume the TV cable. If I unlock it, I can move it back and forth about 2 inches in either direction. One direction seems to tighten the acelerator cable connected at the throttle body, and moving it back towards the firewall seems to loosen that same cable at the throttle body a little bit. What is this adjustment for and how should it be set? I moved it in both directions and it doesn’t seem to make much of a difference, at least that I can feel, but it must be doing something right?
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Melting Slicks
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okay, good info thx... So there is an adjustment on what is I presume the TV cable. If I unlock it, I can move it back and forth about 2 inches in either direction. One direction seems to tighten the acelerator cable connected at the throttle body, and moving it back towards the firewall seems to loosen that same cable at the throttle body a little bit. What is this adjustment for and how should it be set? I moved it in both directions and it doesn’t seem to make much of a difference, at least that I can feel, but it must be doing something right?
Melting Slicks
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From: Saskatoon Sask.
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Melting Slicks
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If I am reading into your post correctly, I can only assume that this adjustment is just a simple way to adjust the throttle position and nothing more.
The reason I was asking is because on my 85 and 87 cars there was an adjustment that when made allowed you to adjust the shift point providing more RPM’s between shifts. Evidently the 94’s don’t have this adjustment and it is now controlled by the computer.
The adjustment on my 94 that we are discussing doesn’t seem to do anything from a drivers perspective anyway. If it’s all the way open, or all the way in the opposite direction, which seems to tighten the throttle cable, while driving the car there is no noticeable change.
Right now it’s all the way together, or tight. Based on what you are saying, this should give me the best chance to obtain a fully opened throttle when the pedal os on the floor.The butterfly won’t open past 90 degrees, so I can only assume that I have it set right.
Let me know if I got it right.... I feel a little funny being 54 years old and receiving an answer that is worded like my dad wrote it... LOL.
Thx.
Melting Slicks
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Thanks... I do understand quite a bit about most things auto related, so to answer your question, when the pedal is to the floor the throttle body plates should be 90 degrees, or fully open.
If I am reading into your post correctly, I can only assume that this adjustment is just a simple way to adjust the throttle position and nothing more.
The reason I was asking is because on my 85 and 87 cars there was an adjustment that when made allowed you to adjust the shift point providing more RPM’s between shifts. Evidently the 94’s don’t have this adjustment and it is now controlled by the computer.
The adjustment on my 94 that we are discussing doesn’t seem to do anything from a drivers perspective anyway. If it’s all the way open, or all the way in the opposite direction, which seems to tighten the throttle cable, while driving the car there is no noticeable change.
Right now it’s all the way together, or tight. Based on what you are saying, this should give me the best chance to obtain a fully opened throttle when the pedal os on the floor.The butterfly won’t open past 90 degrees, so I can only assume that I have it set right.
Let me know if I got it right.... I feel a little funny being 54 years old and receiving an answer that is worded like my dad wrote it... LOL.
Thx.