A904 Kickdown Lever on Trans not Moving

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Almost done with installing a fresh V8 A904 and we're on the middle of installing a Lokar kickdown cable. We hook up the cable, and we try to move the lever on the trans back. It wasn't moving, so we removed the cable and try to push the lever back. It won't : it stops hard when you should start feeling pressure to move the kickdown back. Moving the trans from park to drive or anything else doesn't make it move. The gear selector lever moves fine. The little stud on what the levers rest on moves MAYBE total of 10 degrees. That's free play.

This trans has a TF-2 installed it. Does that have anything do with it? It's not a manual valve body.

This is frustrating. I'm going to call the builder tomorrow in case I missed something, but I cannot find anything that says something causes that kickdown lever to come to a full stop. If anyone has any ideas to test, please let me know, thanks.
 
No, it it's "just" the TF2 kit, the kickdown should operate as stock.
 
Additional tidbit. When placed in park, parking pall is not engaging fully : driveshaft still sounds I hear the pall 'clicking' as if it's not fully seated properly. I don't that has anything to do with it, but definitely a problem. I'm real tempted to take the valve body out but I will call them first thing tomorrow.
 
See, this is why I say just rebuild it yourself...at least after it's screwed up, you still have that money in your pocket.
 
CudaFactHackJob said:
See, this is why I say just rebuild it yourself...at least after it's screwed up, you still have that money in your pocket.
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Although you are certainly correct, I don't think an "I told you so" helps her out very much.
 
Dodge72 said:
Additional tidbit. When placed in park, parking pall is not engaging fully : driveshaft still sounds I hear the pall 'clicking' as if it's not fully seated properly. I don't that has anything to do with it, but definitely a problem. I'm real tempted to take the valve body out but I will call them first thing tomorrow.
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I think I would wait to drop the valve body. Hopefully your builder will make it good.
 
It's either fix it yourself, or take it back to the guy who screwed it up in the first place...like I tell my customers..why do you want a guarantee? If I screw it up the first time, do you really want me to work on it AGAIN?!?!
 
CudaFactHackJob said:
It's either fix it yourself, or take it back to the guy who screwed it up in the first place...like I tell my customers..why do you want a guarantee? If I screw it up the first time, do you really want me to work on it AGAIN?!?!
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I agree. Hopefully she'll find the trouble and it'll be simple. She shouldn't have to worry about it.
 
I have my reasons for buying a transmission. I've attempted to rebuild one first and I ended up spending a lot of time trying to diagnose issues that weren't changing at all. I absolutely hate having somebody else build things for me, but I couldn't have my car sitting anymore.

Anyways, closing this thread. Sometimes cars really mess with your head sometimes. Pulled the pan off just to inspect the kickdown and began to fiddle with the linkage bit that controls the valve. All of a sudden, pushing down on the basics and it moved! Moving the lever with the pan off, and all of a sudden things are swell. Hooked up everything, filled it with fluid, and kickdown moves smooth as butter and she shifts! And park is working as well. Need to adjust the kickdown a little bit, but I'm so happy!
 
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