Posted by JR on 10/14/2007, 8:02 am Drove 30 miles at 70mph on Interstate. Just cruising, no funny sounds, vibrations, smells, etc, all normal. After stopping at the bottom of the off-ramp (still nothing unusual), I take off and I find that my shift points are now about 1000rpm higher than normal and that they jerk hard into the next gear. It won’t go into fourth at all. Since I was very close to home, I limped my way there. Immediately checked and no burnt ATF smells or fluid dropping to the garage floor. Up on the lift. I have ATF at the proper level (checked while hot and then, later, cold per the workshop manual). Nothing else, visible, is out of place or not doing what it is supposed to do. After checking 38-116 (Troubleshooting) in the manual, it looks like a probable cause could be the Control Pressure Cable (Kick-down cable?) needs adjusting or replacement, if broken. After pulling the cable out of the tranny end (per 37-113 & 114), I still have the small, mostly cylindrical piece still attached to the end of the wire. The “half-cylindrical” part if it has a small hole near the tip. I can also feel a spring-loaded, “hook”(?) piece still in the hole. Am I correct in assuming that these two pieces need to hook together some how? And if so, how? Obviously, (at this point, this is my common sense kicking in as the manual is extraordinarily vague on this part and my expertise with AT’s is virtually non-existent), pulling on the throttle cable pulls the Control Pressure Cable, which ought to pull the “hook” at the tranny end. I just don’t see how it’s possible to pull on the hook with the setup as it is showing me. Unless, there’s supposed to be a pin in that little hole at the end of that half-cylindrical piece grabbing the hook? Or… (most likely scenario), am I over thinking this and missing something totally obvious? Sorry for the length of this, just trying to cram as much info as I can (with the hope of not having to take her to the tranny shop). Thanks for all help on this. John
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Hi all. After 4-1/2 years, 35k near problem free miles and the usual maintenance done to her, my ’84 US AT is ailing. Here’s what happened…
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