(Home) Kick-down cable

Tried to adjust the kick-down cable on my Royal Lounge 2 X wheel drive.
Kick down has always been a bit early. Found that there is no further adjustment available. In fact previous owner had lengthened bracket holes to try to get more !
Question; If I get a new cable. How difficult are they to fit ? Especially at the Gearbox end ?

- (#12934) Roy, 22 Aug 04 05:20

I get no points for observance. reading through some previous posted messages I find that Dave Miller has already answered my query. Thanks Dave, as I thought a major (messy) job to change a cable !!!
Regards to all.

- (#12934) Roy, 23 Aug 04 06:34

roy, jusy had a kick down cable go on me in france,i was told by the french garage it would be september before they got a cable.the townace had to be transported home. bit i got a cable off bbc spares a week later but my garage will not atempt to fit they say its a speciist job so it goes in next tuesday. the cost of the cable with postage is £80.00 ok. alan

- (#12934) alan, 26 Aug 04 08:23

Thanks Alan for your info. Sorry to hear of your problems in France. As my cable is a bit stretched and no more adjustment can be used and also because it is still intact, I may try modifying (shortening) at engine end first ! If I fail then onto the mess and effort to put it right. I hate to think of what this specialist job is going to cost you in the garage! please let me know, I will start wincing now !
Hope it goes well all the best, Roy

- (#12934) Roy, 28 Aug 04 15:38

I know on my hiace its possible to attach gardening wire or cable tie etc. to the unsheathed part of the cable.....then attatch somewhere handy... thereby increasing the overall tension without compromising its operation. OK its a bodge...but it will work and its easily removed

- (#12934) chris turner, 29 Aug 04 15:12

more info/update on my kick-down cable problems. found that the cable fault was totally the reverse of usual bowden type cable problems. inner cable was not stretched, the outer cable has grown in length ! explains why previous owner tried moving the cable support bracket by slotting the fixing holes. every time i looked at it i was confused, ended up taking a photo of it and eventually worked out that i need to lengthen the inner to solve my problems or of course buy and fit a new cable. this vehicle continues to keep my "old" brain "ticking."
i am still working on a fix, after all, it's not "rocket science !!!? "

- (#12934) Roy, 2 Sep 04 10:40

Hoping someone out there can give me a dimension.
I believe that adjustment of the kick-down cable is a ball affixed to the cable set 1mm from the end of a boot which is fitted to the cable, with throttle fully open.
I am unable to set my cable to that position as it has not got any form of "Boot" on it !
So I am hoping someone out there can give me a dimension which I can use as an initial setup.
The outside length of the boot would help a lot. so would the measurement from the ball to the Bracket which holds the cable.
Any info, dimensions or clean suggestions would be appreciated.

- (#12934) Roy, 3 Sep 04 15:07

You can set the cable by the feel of the gearchange- fine tune it to suit you. On mine, the best changes occurred when the crimp on the inner was resting on the outer's ferrule, although that was an old cable. Try it with the slack just taken out of the cable and no more.

FYI, the crimp is normally put on after the cable is attached at the tranny end, positioned so that all slack is removed from the inner cable.

Although if I recall, the boot is something like 35mm long...

- (#12934) David Miller, 3 Sep 04 15:33

Thanks Dave for your comments/information. Originally thought that I might try taking a couple of coils out of the outer sleeve to shorten it back to a "guessed normal". The problem was obviously affecting the previous owner of my vehicle as the bracket had filed slot fixing holes to get a bit more adjustment (?) and I assume the boot, (and O/D relay) was removed at the same time.I made up a relay to replace it to get "4th" gear.
Having another "play" with it tomorrow !

- (#12934) Roy, 4 Sep 04 08:47

on my kickdown cable when cable was at its slackist position i.e nut unscrewed to its maximum my gearsstill seemed to change late(lots of revs before changing up)so moved cable to other side of u clamp(both nuts together and cable outer sheath forced in to u piece so both nuts areon left of u clamp as you look down on it instead of one either side this makes inner cable kink by orange boot but my gear change is silky smooth to the point of virtually un noticeable is this likely to cause any problems in futureor will it be okay my other question is my masterace has tyre size of 195/70/r14 seen a set of alloys with tyre size 195/65/r14 presently on a h reg liteace mine is a j reg masterace surf 2.0td will these be okay dont understand what the 65/70 means on tyres thank you all john

- (#12934) john williamson, 22 Sep 04 19:37