ok iv read the post and tech articles on how to adjust this thing, but its not working. it moves and all that, but dosnt ratchet or click when we step on the gas. iv tried self adjusting it then driving it around, but it just doesnt shift right still/ 1st did seem fine, till i beat on it tonight and now it delays sorta, then shifts kinda hard and jerky. is feels like im loosing all my power when it shifts into 2nd gear. its wacko i tell ya!! please help me fix this so i can drive the damn thing.

 

The real right way to adjust it is hook up a pressure gauge, push in the tab and then push the cable housing end in until pressure starts to drop, then pull it back out until it just starts to raise and leave it there.

 

where you hook the presure gauge too??

 

If you can not adjust it then be on the safe side and buy a new one from the dealer. You do not want to screw up your transmision by a incorrectly adjusted cable.

 

Look in the archives on this, transfixleo has addressed this up a number of times.

 

there's a port on the drivers side of the tranny right above the selector shaft.

 

To adjust the TV Cable skip the book method and do this: Press the 'D' shaped lock button on the adjuster and loosen the cable setting (The black housing that the metal cable is in will move forward). Now, have someone floor the gas pedal while you check to see if the throttle plate is open all the way. Usually they are off a little and will wiggle. Do whatever you have to do to get it open solid. Now, with the pedal still floored, press the 'D' button and pull the cable casing (the black tube) back as hard as you can (putting maximum tension on the metal cable) and release the button. You now have the engine, tranny and gas pedal all in sync at WOT. Mark the cable casing so if for some reason it gets moved you can know where to put it again. The problem with the 'self adjust method' is that it bends things and puts them permanently out of whack. It is also the full TV setting, which is theoretically what the GM method does.

 

ok get this...i desided to mess with the cable today no matter if it was rainging or snowing. I went out there and tried something someone told me,, didnt work.. then i did the excact opposite of what i thought i needed to do. I thought that the cable would have been somewhere near the middle, instead of completely in or out.. well i tired one in the middle,,,sucked ***,, didnt shift right at all... then i was like **** it,, im gonna start from the very front(cable all the way in) and work my way back......bammm,,, worked! when i did the stuff everyone told me to do,, it ended up setting in the middle,, thats y it was never working right. so its shifting pretty good now, only thing its missing is its snappyness into 2nd(shift kit).. i didnt wnat to mess it all up and lose the shifting i have at the moment, so i didnt mess with the cable. you think if i were to move it a few clicks it would shift harder??

 

Go back and reread my post. If you do it exactly, that is it. Anything else is on the inside.