Heres the story, I added a 1\2 spacer to my Throttle Body and I had to back of the cable and now it don't seem to shift as hard as what is was. What is the Proper way to adjust the cable? This is the car........ 89 Pont. Firebird 305 well built with a TCI 700R4 and Stall converter around 2500 or so. Can anyone Please tell me how to adjust this cable. And one more Question off the subject What in the hell is a spacer susposed to do. I noticed no differance at all.
Thanks for any help


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You can adjust your TV cable one of two ways. From the throttle connection, there's a square shaped sleeve that the cable goes through. That sleeve goes through an adjuster that has a button on one side. Before you do anything, get some WhiteOut or a pencil or something and put a mark on the sleeve where it slides in.

Push the button in and slide the square shaped sleeve all the way in, then let go of the button. Get in the car and floor the pedal. The sleeve *should* pop out to the correct length.

If it doesn't pop out (it's probably very old, like mine), push the button and pull the slide out to where it was before. Now, try pushing the sleeve IN about 1/8". If it shifts like mud, move the sleeve back OUT a 1/8" beyond the mark. That should firm it up. Experiment until it shifts right. You'll always have the mark to refer to.

A SPACER is supposed to add volume to the intake and make it easier for the air/fuel mix to turn the corner in the shallow half of a dual-plane intake. If you had an older non-CCC SBC with a big cam and big port heads, a spacer was often used to fine tune the top end. Nothing happened on your car because the damn computer probably compensated for the thing!

 

Hey thanks for the info! I am very GREATFUL. But you mean to tell me I wasted good money on a SPACER!!!!!!!!


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