64fury
Active Member
Hi Guys and Gals
New here, but it looks like the right place to ask my questions, at last a decent looking pre 66' group!
This might be long, so I appologise in advance.
I have a 64' Sport Fury, with a 383 and 727, having a few issues which have kept her of the road last year and so far this year, most of the issues I can esily fix when the Fiance gives me the time to do so! ie: leaky MC, replace the seal on the diff etc!
But there is one issue that i've been running down and been able to solve totaly. Which is my shift and the kickdown.
My car has a 383 with a edlebrock 4bbl, a 64' 727 tranny, floor shifter, when I first got the car the shifter was out of sync, ie: the car would be in drive, but the shifter would be inbetween N and R, found out it had a shifter from a A-100 van in it. So I found the correct shifter and cable, installed it and evrything was fine except it wouldn't shift down at hi-way speeds, tried adjusting the kickdown linkage (non stock linkage) which made little if any diffrence. Had the linkage at the far limits of it's adjustment range.
I have the 64' service manual from Detroit Iron and have tried the adjusting procedure in there, but with the non stock kickdown linkage on the carb I haven't had any sucess.
So thats where I am now, with a car that won't shift down, so what would my next step be? I have arebuild kit for the tranny but would like to solve this without having to drop the tranny, or at least try to first.
Hope some one can shed some light on my issue, would really like to drive this car some time soon!
Mike B
New here, but it looks like the right place to ask my questions, at last a decent looking pre 66' group!
This might be long, so I appologise in advance.
I have a 64' Sport Fury, with a 383 and 727, having a few issues which have kept her of the road last year and so far this year, most of the issues I can esily fix when the Fiance gives me the time to do so! ie: leaky MC, replace the seal on the diff etc!
But there is one issue that i've been running down and been able to solve totaly. Which is my shift and the kickdown.
My car has a 383 with a edlebrock 4bbl, a 64' 727 tranny, floor shifter, when I first got the car the shifter was out of sync, ie: the car would be in drive, but the shifter would be inbetween N and R, found out it had a shifter from a A-100 van in it. So I found the correct shifter and cable, installed it and evrything was fine except it wouldn't shift down at hi-way speeds, tried adjusting the kickdown linkage (non stock linkage) which made little if any diffrence. Had the linkage at the far limits of it's adjustment range.
I have the 64' service manual from Detroit Iron and have tried the adjusting procedure in there, but with the non stock kickdown linkage on the carb I haven't had any sucess.
So thats where I am now, with a car that won't shift down, so what would my next step be? I have arebuild kit for the tranny but would like to solve this without having to drop the tranny, or at least try to first.
Hope some one can shed some light on my issue, would really like to drive this car some time soon!
Mike B
