Noob question 727 really low shift points

diymirage said
If your careful, you might be able to cut the sleeve of the stock throttle cable and that will give you the flexibility to use it instead of buying another one

As for the transmission, have you tried manually shifting it?
(It is probably toast, because it was ran without a kickdown but there may be a manual valve body in there aswell)

Ok, so just to clarify, if there's a manual valve body, the kickdown isn't necessary? I'm assuming that there were way more that were NOT manual valve bodies with the way everyone recommended right away that the cable was necessary. I didn't try the manual shifting but I will this weekend when I can spend some more time under there and maybe do some adjustment. Is there any way to identify what type of valve body it is without dropping the pan and having to refill it? I couldn't find any numbers stamped on it when I looked before but it was night time, so I'll check again (of course it could have been rebuilt but at least I might know what it was originally).

I ordered the throttle cable today, just because I want it to be correct up top and if that's what I need to do, so be it, I'll just set aside a few more ibuprofen for afterwards :mad:.

I didn't look super close at the cable at the end of the transmission, but I'm assuming it's set by default to have most of the adjustment up top. I talked to Lokar on the phone and they asked how much I cut off. I said huh? LOL. It actually is a hair to short at the carb, so I'm thinking I have to at the very least re-run it to make sure that there's enough slack on both ends. Now that I know how it attaches up top, I should be able to get it straight and if it doesn't work then, I'll know I'm now in the market for a transmission.