Leakage and play at the kickdown lever!

[64fury]

Hi Guys and Gals!

Been having issues with the kickdown in my 64" Fury, in a nut shell it shifts real late on the hi-way.

Stock linkage and an Edlebrock Carb made me go out and install a Bouchillon Kickdown kit, nice kit easy to install.

While installing I noticed two things which I did not notice before.
1) The kickdown lever on the tranny is leaking.
2) There is no resistance in the Kickdown lever, if you blow on it it will move.

The cars got no insurance so I couldn't take it out to see the new cables and carb linkage worked, but feeling the play in the kickdown lever I got a feeling nothing has changed.

So whats the next step, I have rebuild kit for the tranny, but if it's just the kickdown valve can that be replaced with the tranny still in the car?

Any other possible options?

 

[69 Runner]

Could be the lever isn't tight on the shaft.

 

[64fury]

Checked that first thing, its nice and snug, no play between the lever and shaft!