Some sort of cable broke.

[koda6966]

When I was underneath my truck today playing with my starter, I noticed a cable of some sort that had it's jacket melted off by the manifold, rusted out, and snapped almost completely. There is literally only one strand holding.

Out of concern, I followed it up and back. It starts out at my firewall, and heads down strait to the transmission, where it is connected to a pulley of some sort.

I'm sure this is something important, so any ideas as to what it is, and how hard it will be to replace?

I will try to get photos tomorrow, if the weather cooperates.

 

[CHKNFKR]

Where at on the trans?

 

[koda6966]

Drivers side. It's really hard to explain honestly.

 

[7.5L_STX]

kickdown cable?

 

[koda6966]

*types Ford A4LD kickdown cable into google*

Didn't get much from that, but at least I have an idea now.

How big of a pain do you think that would be to replace? And what problems could it potentially cause, or already be causing? Since one strand is holding, it could be broken off elsewhere and just dangling, I'm assuming it's no longer connected.

If I'm right, the kickdown cable is what tells your transmission "Woah, were on a hill, downshift!" and then you are able to make it up the hill easier. This would make sense, since most hills I can only do 35-40 up if I get a good running start. I've always blamed this on my poor rear-end gearing.

 

[7.5L_STX]

*types Ford A4LD kickdown cable into google*

Didn't get much from that, but at least I have an idea now.

How big of a pain do you think that would be to replace? And what problems could it potentially cause, or already be causing? Since one strand is holding, it could be broken off elsewhere and just dangling, I'm assuming it's no longer connected.

If I'm right, the kickdown cable is what tells your transmission "Woah, were on a hill, downshift!" and then you are able to make it up the hill easier. This would make sense, since most hills I can only do 35-40 up if I get a good running start. I've always blamed this on my poor rear-end gearing.

idk how big of a pain it is as ive never had to replace one, ive never owned an automatic lol. but i do know that it kicks her down a gear when you tromp on it. and most likely the hill thing too, never thought about it that way.

 

[koda6966]

Well I'll have to take a looksee at it next time I have a few spare house during the day. The bottom side (IIRC) was a bolt, so that would be easy after a treatment of PB. Top went somewhere into the firewall. That's the hard part. I'm assuming it goes to the pedal, if so then it might be easy.

 

[CHKNFKR]

Get ya a short piece of cable and a handfull of cable clamps.

 

[koda6966]

Get ya a short piece of cable and a handfull of cable clamps.

So I take it this is one of those situations where redneck-fab is perfectly fine? I like that, it's simple. Haha.

 

[CHKNFKR]

I don't see why you shouldn't. I've done worse to more important systems.....