Kickdown help

Got a second hand, new Kickdown with the Hemi-orange bracket and 3 pc rods, no instructions. Car is a 74-360 challenger that had a home made kickdown,,,,, tranny is either fubar or hopefully this will fix the odd shifting up and down all the time....

Installed the bracket on the last holes in the intake, pivot on the bracket and arm connected to the carb, dropped the 2 pc down the firewall and don't see where/ if the section that holds the 2 arms together is supposed to mount to, or does it just hang in space ( Part labeled as #1-pivot pointed to) ?
Here is the Image that I used to assemble it, and all parts to the top image are in my kit



Does that lower pivot attach to the firewall somewhere?

Thanks

Allen

Generally a smallblock E body, IIRC has a 1 pc rod for the main kick down that pivots off the intake mounted bracket, down to the valve body lever....however a 3pc could be used, as some where used in smblk B bodies,....item #7, not #1 that you reference for help in "location", is mounted to a boss (protrusion) cast into the transmission, which may/may not be on your transmission (depending on the year of mfg)....if the boss is present, use it,....if not, purchase the correct/new kickdown linkage from the host of assorted vendors in the reproduction market

Found this pic online, you can see in general at least how it mounts to the transmission pretty well...

Thanks

The lower bracket does have a bolt on it, so I assume it mounts like in your picture.


Thanks, I'll go out and see if I can find the hole and bolt it up.

Allen

Got the pivot bracket bolted on to the transmission, now the arm between the pivot and tranny is too long...


It looks like it wants to bolt to the transmission shifting bracket, not the arm coming out of the trans that is forward of the shift linkage.... arm is about 9 inches long, about 1 1/2" longer than the old rod linkage was connected to the transmission...


The shift linkage is behind where the kickdown is with no load, but to get the new linkage to attach to the upper kickdown bracket the kickdown arm needs to be on top of the shift arm location?

Not sure why, but the shift linkage in the above picture , the arms are swapped top to bottom , the longer unattached arm is about where the linkage arm front pivot of the shift linkage is, and where the pictured arm is that needs the kickdown attached is where the new linkage wants to be.....


Any idea why this image seems backwards from my trans setup?


Any suggestions?

Thanks

Allen

It is NOT a kickdown

To be honest it's hard to say without knowing what linkage you have because it sounds like you've got a mismatch. There were more than just 2 styles. Some years had even more adjustment potential. It would be nice to see some pictures.


AZ69CHARGER... that's how you define helping someone by using semantics?

Ok then...the correct term is THROTTLE PRESSURE LINKAGE

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To be honest it's hard to say without knowing what linkage you have because it sounds like you've got a mismatch. There were more than just 2 styles. Some years had even more adjustment potential. It would be nice to see some pictures.


AZ69CHARGER... that's how you define helping someone by using semantics?

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.....on both statements, the OP needs to post some pics, if possible, only so much you can do verbally,....and FWIW A-Z69Charger the Chrysler FSM list the correct terminology as throttle rod