Finally... adjusted kickdown cable...
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:38 pm
Well, yesterday and today were "fiddling around with the Delica"-Days for me... Wife and child are out of town... so what better to do than to get the hands real dirty... First I sanded the rusty wiper-arms (back and front), then I took the side-rearview mirrors off and sanded the rusty mounting bars... then painted it all with tremclad... then I mounted tether anchors on one of the captains chairs to properly and easily (i.e. without seatbelts) mount the baby-seat... Yesterday I finally had Future-Shop (had a bunch of gift-cards to use up) put in a DVD-Radio-CD-MP3 deck... after I put in new speakers (changing the rear speakers sucks real bad...) and then today I decided to adjust the kickdown cable as it always kicks back too early (slightest incline, when speed drops just a bit but gas-pedal pressure remains steady it immediately kicks back...) - I had hardly any room to loosen it any further... but I managed to get the kick-down action delayed just a bit... so now I can better use the lower end torque... it actually feels like I just gained a horsepower or two.... suddenly the van seems to have slightly bigger lungs when negotiating gentle hills.... The funnest (and hottest) part was doing test runs on the upper levels highway between Capilano and Lonsdale with the engine lid (i.e. passenger seat) open... man that thing is loud and hot.... good thing Mitsubishi insulated that lid pretty good....
So - now that the hands are cleaned up again I am able to report all of this fun stuff on the forum...
Another Sunday well spent...
Cheers, Chris
This is the view of the engine - circled is the area of where the "throttle" and the "transmission - kickdown" cable come in
This is the view of the cable-adjuster for the Kick-Down cable that needs to be adjusted (to make the tranny kick down later, have as much thread as possible facing like shown on the picture - to make it kick down earlier, release it and turn the other way (on this picture you would then not see as much thread)
These two nuts/bolts I had to adjust ever so slightly as I didn't have enough slack on the adjustable thread of the cable (as per above picture) - I've put on over 7'000km's now since the adjustment and while the tranny still kicks down a bit too easily for my personal taste, it was a big improvement.
One thing I kept in mind and I would urge everybody to attempt such adjustment to keep in mind as well is the following:
To lug a turbodiesel - i.e. run it at lower rpms with an open throttle (granted that a diesel doesn't have a throttle - but for the lack of a better explanation I use the word "throttle") under load will result in two things: Black smoke from the exhaust and extensive heat on the cylinderhead, exhaust manifold and turbo (I learned the hard way and have since a new cylinder head). Therefore, to run at "lower" rpm's is ok if just coasting or cruising or maintaining comfortable Deli-Highway speed. But going up hills or trying to keep speeds on even roads of over 100km/h may already put extra strain and heat onto the powerplant if keeping rpm's low....
I did the adjustment as I felt that my van was kicking down even if I increased pedal pressure ever so slightly when going up an ever so slight incline (like approaching the second narrows bridge at 80km/h and it would kick down at 78km/h where I knew that it could totally manage the 500 meters or so until the mid-span in overdrive... it drove me absolutely nuts... Going at 80km/h and suddenly it would kick down... and then I would ease the pressure off the pedal, it would shift up again just to kick right back down again while maintaining the slower speed...
So my adjustment corrected this problem to some extent...
Sorry to recycle this post again - but another member asked me to share the pics of my adjustment and I didn't know any better way than to re-post the same thread with added pics...
Cheers,
Chris
So - now that the hands are cleaned up again I am able to report all of this fun stuff on the forum...
Another Sunday well spent...
Cheers, Chris
This is the view of the engine - circled is the area of where the "throttle" and the "transmission - kickdown" cable come in
This is the view of the cable-adjuster for the Kick-Down cable that needs to be adjusted (to make the tranny kick down later, have as much thread as possible facing like shown on the picture - to make it kick down earlier, release it and turn the other way (on this picture you would then not see as much thread)
These two nuts/bolts I had to adjust ever so slightly as I didn't have enough slack on the adjustable thread of the cable (as per above picture) - I've put on over 7'000km's now since the adjustment and while the tranny still kicks down a bit too easily for my personal taste, it was a big improvement.
One thing I kept in mind and I would urge everybody to attempt such adjustment to keep in mind as well is the following:
To lug a turbodiesel - i.e. run it at lower rpms with an open throttle (granted that a diesel doesn't have a throttle - but for the lack of a better explanation I use the word "throttle") under load will result in two things: Black smoke from the exhaust and extensive heat on the cylinderhead, exhaust manifold and turbo (I learned the hard way and have since a new cylinder head). Therefore, to run at "lower" rpm's is ok if just coasting or cruising or maintaining comfortable Deli-Highway speed. But going up hills or trying to keep speeds on even roads of over 100km/h may already put extra strain and heat onto the powerplant if keeping rpm's low....
I did the adjustment as I felt that my van was kicking down even if I increased pedal pressure ever so slightly when going up an ever so slight incline (like approaching the second narrows bridge at 80km/h and it would kick down at 78km/h where I knew that it could totally manage the 500 meters or so until the mid-span in overdrive... it drove me absolutely nuts... Going at 80km/h and suddenly it would kick down... and then I would ease the pressure off the pedal, it would shift up again just to kick right back down again while maintaining the slower speed...
So my adjustment corrected this problem to some extent...
Sorry to recycle this post again - but another member asked me to share the pics of my adjustment and I didn't know any better way than to re-post the same thread with added pics...
Cheers,
Chris