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clinebarger · 03-08-2012, 02:05 AM

The Lokar Throttle cable bracket you have is for a cable style throttle, Its NOT a TV cable bracket, See how your cable is running "downhill" to the carb, That WILL NOT work....The stainless cable will eat right through the aluminum cable end.

You have to set those cables with a pressure gauge.....1 to 2 PSI over "minimum regulated pressure" at idle to Full cable pull at WOT.

This will be hard to acheive even if you had the right TV bracket & impossible with what you currently have. The TV spring WILL be the wrong length for what "geometry/arc/pull" you have, You might get lucky & have a TV spring that is to long & it will shift hard & late, Have one to short....You WILL burn the 3-4 clutches.

It would be a 100 times easier to buy a BTO set-up, But if you deside to run this I will help, But you need a TV bracket first.

03-08-2012, 02:05 AM	#16
clinebarger Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 6,370	Re: Tv kickdown cable The Lokar Throttle cable bracket you have is for a cable style throttle, Its NOT a TV cable bracket, See how your cable is running "downhill" to the carb, That WILL NOT work....The stainless cable will eat right through the aluminum cable end. You have to set those cables with a pressure gauge.....1 to 2 PSI over "minimum regulated pressure" at idle to Full cable pull at WOT. This will be hard to acheive even if you had the right TV bracket & impossible with what you currently have. The TV spring WILL be the wrong length for what "geometry/arc/pull" you have, You might get lucky & have a TV spring that is to long & it will shift hard & late, Have one to short....You WILL burn the 3-4 clutches. It would be a 100 times easier to buy a BTO set-up, But if you deside to run this I will help, But you need a TV bracket first.