C4 Shift issue

[2bad]

Well after getting most everything else tied down enough to finally get around to the mustang i've been nailing down its issues. One of its noises from the transmission was that the shop who did the wiring and startup didnt put the spedo cable out of the way of the exhaust and it melted itself to the exhaust, the vacume modulator wasnt hooked up, and the engine wasnt grounded to the chasis, along with the radiator schroud not being installed and a few other things.

When taken for a test drive after i got it back it wouldnt shift.. in drive it stayed in first, aswell as 1 and 2. So i once i found the vacume for the transmission unhooked i hooked that back up today to a vaccume i found on the carb, as the edelbrock intake had none. and now it shifts but only manualy. It will only stay in first in drive (as fast as i've dared taking it on VERY bad tires) in (1) it will start in first, and in (2) it actually shifts to 2nd now. I'm thinking i either used a bad vaccume on the carb (as i was honestly just guessing as i was in a time crunch), and i'm also thinking that his "custom" shift linkage may be out of adjustment.. i honestly dont see why they didnt just use a stock c4 shift linkage.. but oh well. whats done is done if it needs fixing i'll end up doing it.

Where would be the correct spot to hook up the vacume line from the trans with a edelbrock rpm intake and holly 4bbl Carb? The only one i see is for the distributer and if i recall isnt that the vaccume advance? a t-fitting into that would probably be the incorrect route i guessed so i didnt want to try that one. I still have to get a paypal account so i can order those little swaybar endlink bushings for it unless somone has some local. aswell. Sorry for the questions all jumbled up, i'm just writing this before i hit the sack so i can get up for school.

[whe3ls]

is there a throttle kickdown switch or linkage installed in the car?

[trbo355]

The vacuum modulator needs to be hooked up to full time vacuum. If you have a Holley carb, most of them have a vacuum port on the passenger lower front corner down in the baseplate. Thats the one you should hook to. The one higher up coming out of the metering block is a ported source and should be used for the distributor.

[2bad]

yes there is a kickdown cable on it, the shop who did the startup on it installed a "universal" one from shucks it looks like so i dont know if its hooked up right. I put it on a "spare" i found under the front floatbowl on the baseplate, I'll try to take some pictures of it tomorow. But it is on the front passenger side and is low like on the baseplate it as i'd describe it, so maybe i got the right one.


I just found more issues which angered me a tad bit.. he told me it needed new power steering lines, which i just put on as they came with the car in a box, and i had them zip tied out of the way well they attached them and didnt tie them out of the way of the exhaust and it melted them and he wanted 150 for them when i found them for 10 a piece online... just like the spedo cable which they purchased for me and installed and didnt tie out of the way of the exhaust.. and it melted to the exhaust and messed it up.. not to mention they made a custom shift linkage when they could have bought one and saved hours of labor and it would have worked properly.. and they went over budget by 400.. without notice and the battery that they purchased and charged me 84 for is BAD.. it has writing all over the top of it and the barcode is scribbled out and i got no reciept for any parts on the car.. just one from them saying how much they paid for it suposdily with no proof of how much it really cost... which i didnt like.. oh well i guess you live and learn. I will say that they did take off 300 worth of parts that were NOT needed (a whole new tie rod setup that they were building custom for some reason) when they should have bought the little bushings instead which were 26 a piece. (and he knew about them but wanted to do the custom way) and then he wrote the other extra 100 off and kept it at 3k which i still find very overpriced for what was done but oh well.. gives me more to do hah. sorry for the rant everyone.. but after i had the battery tested today i was prety pissed off.. it kept loosing charge and i thought it was wierd so i just thew in a different battery untill i could charge the one they bought and i took it in to be charged and load tested and it came back bad...

[Danimal]

Who did the work on the car????

[2bad]

I'm not sure i'd like to divulge the name of the shop, as i wanted to get parts they still had before i talked to him and told him how pissed off i am about everything and see what he'd do about it.... I'm definatly not recomending people anymore, and definatly taking back the recomendations i've already made. they are cool guys. Its not a shop thats on here or has ever been talked about on here, so dont worry about that.

[2bad]

OK.. update! the vacume line wasnt hooked up properly down on the modulator itself so when i get the exhaust hooked up properly i'll hook that up properly aswell.