Hoping the hive mind here can help me.
I swapped in an allegedly reman 727 into my 89 wagoneer and have had a couple successful neighborhood cruises. Haven’t touched it in a few months and it drove like junk suddenly. I checked the TV cable (upgraded to lokar) and it was loose with a ton of slack. Getting back into readjusting it I noticed the arm on the transmission doesn’t spring fully back to the forward (idle) position on its own.
About the first 1/4” of travel of the arm on the trans just kinda flops wherever until suddenly there’s good spring pressure through to WOT.
I took a picture of the carb end to show how much I can manipulate the arm on the trans side without it returning to home…
I tried taking in all the slack and that was way worse and limited throttle.
My question is: is this slack normal? Generally I thought the TV cable (or linkage) should stay under tension but I know the stock one had some sort of slip system. Just trying to figure out if I need to dig into the trans or if this is normal behavior from a 727. Haven’t seen this situation on TH350’s or 700r4
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