Turbo 350 Kickdown Cable Adjustment

The 350 has a governor and a vacuum modulator to regulate shifts rather than a throttle valve that also tailors shift points like on the others.

Turbo 350 kickdown cable adjustment.

Insert the kickdown hookup rod on the transmission into the hole in the transmission end of the kickdown inner cable. Insert the kickdown cable housing with the rubber hat seal into the transmission. I completely forgot how it feels for the tranny to drop down to 1st gear at 40mph in this old girl what an eye opener. Then on the carb end you cut the cable to your needs and adjust.

For more information call us at 1 800 708 0087. How to correctly adjust kickdown cable on th35 07 02 05 02 07 pm post 731348 in response to wow. Kickdown cable housing with the protruding lip at the top. So the lokar kick down cable would bolt right up to this bracket.

It connects on the tranny end just like the stock cable. The kickdown function of general motors vehicles equipped with the turbo 350 automatic transmission is perhaps better known as passing gear as the accelerator is depressed the throttle lever on the engine is drawn back by a cable which in turn pulls another cable attached to the transmission causing it to downshift into a lower gear. On the 350 the cable is just for kickdown. The lokar kick down cable is much like their throttle cable.

So with a 350 the kickdown cable setup doesn t require the calibrated linkage arc that the others do which often needs to be modified on aftermarket or. It feels like a new car.