Have a look at this video... everything you need to know about setting the TV cable correctly. Setting it for a truck starts at about the 2:43 mark.

Ford AOD TV cable adjustment - YouTube

 

Paraphrased from Post #4: Let me google that for you....AOD Transmission Adjustment

 

see thats the thing con, i watched that and no matter which i adjust it still has tension. how far out is it adjusted to be where it is stock cuz its pulled all the way out now...

 

Take it back now to the transmission shop before something really bad happens.There should be plenty of travel in that cable with no tension.

 

Should it be pulled all the way out?

 

Did you watch the video?

That answer would be no if you did.

 

well i found out that the guy before me put a high dollar shift kit in it. when they rebuilt it they put it back in the trans with out telling me, so thats why it shifts so hard. but thanks anyways guys

 

That added to what you stated before? It sounds more like someones blown smoke up your.......

 

take it to another shop for a second opinion. you didnt have AAMCO rebuild that tranny did you?

talk with some local 4wd clubs to see who the better tranny shop in town is.

question was the tranny shifting that hard before you had the motor pulled? also what motor did you put in the truck?

 

The shop i took too alot of people said they were good... I would let aamco touch a pos i had sitting out in a field for 15 years, I hate them!!! When I changed the tranny fluid I noticed under the valve body a gold plate and thought it was how like all fords were. The guys at the shop said that the vavle body has had alot of mods done to it and that gold thing was a shift kit. I believe them because there all ford guys. Cuz this is the first ford Ive worked on, (I LIKE IT VERY MUCH). I put a stock motor in it just a few years newer. I never noticed it shift good before because the motor that was in it had two dead cylinders, so i had to keep my foot to the floor just to go anywhere.

 

That is not what a shift kit looks like. A shift kit is just a few springs and or spacers that go inside of a valve body. There is no way to look at a transmission and notice that it has a shift kit in it. You would have to take out some of the pistons and pull the springs and plungers out of the valve body to even see any evidence of shift or reprogramming parts. Even then you would have to be intimate with whatever tranny it is to know if the orange spring or the blue one is stock or if that portion had two springs or one spring stock.

The only thing I could think of that you might be looking at is a high flow transmission filter. Instead of using a factory paper filter with the plastic or sheet metal casing sometimes they use a big flat piece of brass colored filter screen.

Here is a picture of a shift kit. The springs sitting on the instrruction sheet and the other small parts in the in the bags are what makes up a shift kit. A lot of times they will include a drill bit to open up one of the holes in the metal valve body gasket to increase flow to a certain area , but , like I was saying nothing that would be visible w/o taking the tranny apart.


[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...3/100_1483.jpg[/IMG]
There is a new filter in the picture behind the instruction page . However, it has nothing to do with the shift kit.



Here is a picture of a high flow tranny filter. It is the brass colored square screen in the picture.

TCI Auto 328505 - TCI High-Flow Transmission Filter Kits - Overview - SummitRacing.com

 

Now i aint that stupid i know what a filter is lol, what i am talkin about is underneath the valve body, i can see it the edge of it just fine, so idk

 

I am saying there is no visible evidence of a shift kit in a transmission. A shift kit is just springs and plungers. If you dont know what the stock springs and combinations look like when you pull the guts out of a valve body you couldnt tell there was even one in there. Just unbolting the valve body from the tranny wont show it either.

 

ok thanks man