Kick down cable

[belvedere 67]

I put in a 727 last fall before I parked my belvedere. I didn't get around to hooking up the kick down cable and linkage. My question is do I have to? Or can I drive it without it?.

 

[Charger21]

From what I hear it could damage your transmission. I am not an expert and manually shifted mine for a while and am just getting around to putting a Lokar kit on my car.

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

Manually shift it but get it in.

 

[Yatzee]

I put in a 727 last fall before I parked my belvedere. I didn't get around to hooking up the kick down cable and linkage. My question is do I have to? Or can I drive it without it?.

Controls the pressure to the servos and clutches to ensure there is no slippage of the bands and clutch plates under hard acceleration and speed. Pressure goes up proportional to throttle opening. You can't really do without it.

 

[Danomt]

There has been many threads on this subject. First it is not a kickdown cable, but throttle pressure linkage. Idle is low pressure with full throttle being high pressure. Like Yatzee says it proportional to throttle opening. Do NOT drive your car above an idle without it hooked up and adjusted correct. Have seen many transmissions ruined like this....

 

[brian6pac]

If you have to drive it, tie the lever at the trans back at least 1/2 way tie it down there, at least it will have good pump pressure to drive for a shot time.

 

[Superb Bee]

without kick down you will burn it up, but you can kick it down yourself, keep in mind it wont take much to cook her in the right conditions, I have seen them cooked from being out of tune, and if you have some hills and a decent mill turning it, you will be regretting it fast..

 

[lewtot184]

not running the cable will kill the transmission.

 

[brian6pac]

without kick down you will burn it up, but you can kick it down yourself, keep in mind it wont take much to cook her in the right conditions, I have seen them cooked from being out of tune, and if you have some hills and a decent mill turning it, you will be regretting it fast..

The throttle pressure linkage it just that, the further back the more pump pressure. I don't even run one but my valve body is set up to max psi I think it runs 90psi all the time. so if you tie back the lever all the way it will give you max pressure and now way burn up the trans. It will probably give you late shifts and they will be harder than normal but it wont burn up. that's why I said to pull it back 1/2 way or more to keep the pressure high and it wont burn up