Kickdown Cable Removal Frustration
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Kickdown Cable Removal Frustration
I will be looking at the WSM in the next few hours, just too tired now. Spent all day with a good friend trying to drop the '88's tranny and tube for a bearing refresh all round. A few observations:
1) The kickdown cable is mounted to the top of the bellhousing, making it very difficult to get the 6mm allenhead bolt out to release the metal sheath of the cable. We stripped it basically. For this reason the tube and box likely cannot be separated, unless you open the trans and disconnect the cable inside the trans ... is this the preferred way?
2) You really have to remove everything to get this stuff out. Lots of cables and wires to the trans, had to dig in the trunk also.
3) Top two trans-ttube bolts, impossible to remove.
4) When we pushed the trans forward to try to relax the cable we had not accounted for, the shaft pushed back into the tube (remember trans is connected to tube at this point, just both pinch collars are released) ... is this normal???
1) The kickdown cable is mounted to the top of the bellhousing, making it very difficult to get the 6mm allenhead bolt out to release the metal sheath of the cable. We stripped it basically. For this reason the tube and box likely cannot be separated, unless you open the trans and disconnect the cable inside the trans ... is this the preferred way?
2) You really have to remove everything to get this stuff out. Lots of cables and wires to the trans, had to dig in the trunk also.
3) Top two trans-ttube bolts, impossible to remove.
4) When we pushed the trans forward to try to relax the cable we had not accounted for, the shaft pushed back into the tube (remember trans is connected to tube at this point, just both pinch collars are released) ... is this normal???
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Bill does things the hard way.
That bolt is hard to reach, but that just releases the bracket from the tranny so the kickdown cable stays up in the tunnel when you lower and remove the tranny.
Before you lower the tranny, remove the end of the kickdown cable, by squeezing the plastic lock and rotating it and pulling the end out. Easy.
This is all detailed in the WSM, Volume 3, section 37, page 113 and page 120. That hard to reach bolt is shown on page 121.
That bolt is hard to reach, but that just releases the bracket from the tranny so the kickdown cable stays up in the tunnel when you lower and remove the tranny.
Before you lower the tranny, remove the end of the kickdown cable, by squeezing the plastic lock and rotating it and pulling the end out. Easy.
This is all detailed in the WSM, Volume 3, section 37, page 113 and page 120. That hard to reach bolt is shown on page 121.
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Originally Posted by borland
Bill does things the hard way.
That bolt is hard to reach, but that just releases the bracket from the tranny so the kickdown cable stays up in the tunnel when you lower and remove the tranny.
Before you lower the tranny, remove the end of the kickdown cable, by squeezing the plastic lock and rotating it and pulling the end out. Easy.
This is all detailed in the WSM, Volume 3, section 37, page 113 and page 120. That hard to reach bolt is shown on page 121.
That bolt is hard to reach, but that just releases the bracket from the tranny so the kickdown cable stays up in the tunnel when you lower and remove the tranny.
Before you lower the tranny, remove the end of the kickdown cable, by squeezing the plastic lock and rotating it and pulling the end out. Easy.
This is all detailed in the WSM, Volume 3, section 37, page 113 and page 120. That hard to reach bolt is shown on page 121.
