TV cable ?

[87natl]

I dropped my trans tonight to send it in for a rebuild. It was seemingly slipping or delaying the upshift from 1-2. Normal driving, my trans shifts just like it always has, but under WOT it doesn't want to take 2nd untill I let off a bit. So I figured it was just tired and ready for a rebuild. Hard to tell if it was a matter of it not upshifting, or just plain slipping.

Anyway, whe I removed the TV housing, and lifted it out of the trans case, the cable was disconnected. Could have happened when I pulled the housing, but I just don't know. Not a real big deal, because with the power I'm laying down now, and the fact that the trans had 97k on it, I expected to have to do a rebuild soon anyway, but what do you guys think? Are these cables know to become detatched on their own, and would it cause the type of problems I am describing?

 

[2quiktocare]

From my experience they do not detach themselves, but if they are played with it is very possible. The other side though is that if the tv cable was not hooked up for anything more than like 50 miles worth of driving, you had already fried the trans anyway. Good luck with your rebuild and if we can be of any help, let us know. Mark

 

[87natl]

Thanks for the response Mark. I just wish I knew whether it came detatched on it's own or not. I haven't made any adjustments to the cable in a long time, as I have been VERY satisfied with how it was shifting. Darn shame because this has been a great trans, with good performance. I hope that after the rebuild it is as good....or better.

 

[FlyinGN]

if the cable *did* come detached the failsafe spring would pull out and drop the ball in the VB allowing FULL tv pressure as to not burn up the trans in th eevent that the TV cable breaks or stretches.