no kickdown in my new 88 2.3 coupe

[Roland69]

I bought it today and drove it home. I noticed that once I got in OD I went to gear down by flooring it and it didn't drop any gears. There is a cable or something that isn't hooked up but the guy I bought it from said it was for the cruise

anyone have any ideas what I should check.

 

[bluestang2.3]

If it's fuel injected, you'll see three cables on the throttle body. The top two are accelerator and cruise. The bottom one is the kickdown. I'm not sure where it is on a carb model, but almost always on the throttle linkage/ butterfly assembly.

Hope this helps-Jeff
287K and rising

 

[Roland69]

it's EFI

so if there is one at the bottom of the 3 missing that would be the cause. I know one ain't hooked up and I think it was the one under the throttle. The cruise dosn't work I know for sure...I will look and see what if anything is missing

 

[Roland69]

haven't looked at the car since I bought it....I did talk to the old owner and he said it sometimes kicked down to passing gear and sometimes it didn't...can something be adjusted

 

[Pro-Hawk]

Well the A4LD isn't the best gear box in my opinion. My old 93' LX had issues down shifting with one and upshifting. I was easier for me to simply manual shift it. You can always do a T-5 swap. I was about to do this but my wife gave birth to our son. So I sold the Stangs to make room for something with 4 doors.