[V8] V8 kickdown

[Jeremy Ward]

Hey Lawerence,

The kick down switch is built into the throttle cable and has a known
failure issue.  I replaced mind a few years back for around $100 (?). 
The switch is built into the throttle cable (it is the box that sits
flush with the engine side of the firewall) and operates when you
create enough pulling tension on it.

Swapping it out wasn't a real picnic.  IIRC I removed the drivers coil
and a few other goodies to get my hands down in there.  There is the
connector for the switch that is tucked under the floor mat (follow
the 2 brown wires that come through the hole in the firewall created
for the accelerator cable).

There is a possibility that the throttle cable is out of adjustment
and it is not the kick down switch, but I would guess that that the
other route is more likely.

Cheers,

- Jeremy

On 8/23/05, Lawrence Gorman <lawrence-gorman at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> I have two 3.6L 90V8Qs.  One has the original 90 4spd automatic and the
> other has a 93 4spd automatic.  The  90 tranny drops down one or two speeds
> when I floor it and gives me the power I need for merging onto the
> interstate, etc.  The 93 tranny doesn't behave the same way and fails to
> drop down more than one gear beyond 65mph when I floor it--feels more like
> a 4cyl. between 65 and 75mph.  Questions:  What governs the kickdown points
> on these transmissions?  There isn't a kickdown switch per se. Were there
> design modifications to the 93 trannies (or other 4.2L automatics) that
> would cause them to function differently when connected up to a 3.6L?
> 
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