[V8] V8 kickdown

[Greg Furstenwerth]

Hi Jeremy I was wondering the same thing except I have noticed when I 
kick it over to sport mode that it will kick down and go. When in 
economy it will not kick down do  you think this is related or what? I 
am just wondering beacuse part of it works and part of it does not.

Greg
93 V8Q
North Bend WA

Jeremy Ward wrote:

>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:
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>
>>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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