Is this the correct/proper instruction for adjusting the kickdown cable on my 94 Integra automatic transmission? Also can anyone provide me with a more visual set of instructions?

https://honda-tech.com/forums/showth...n+cable+adjust

Down at the pressure lever on the front of the trans, loosen off the cable retaining nuts so there is a little slack in the cable.
then start taking the slack out of the cable a little bit at a time;
Rest a long screwdriver on the end of the pressure lever, holding the screwdriver with one hand start opening the throttle with your other hand.

Just at the point the idle RPM barely rises, the pressure lever should just barely move.

Driving test; Going along a level road at 25 mph light throttle, floor the gas pedal.
The trans should downshift to first gear.

repeat the same drive at 28 mph, floor the gas pedal, the trans only downshifts to second gear.

 

Can't remember if it was in a Honda or Haynes manual, but I read to adjust the cable where there's a bit of slack.

Here's what I did:

When the trans didn't up/downshift right, tighten/loosen the kickdown cable. If symptoms got worse, adjust it the other way.

Looking at your sig, why did you go with an ls auto and not a b16 auto? I just put a b16 auto in my 94 ls integra and it actually goes somewhere now. Much tighter gears. And since you had a civic, the swap would've possibly been easier. Or do you also have an Integra?

 

I may be wrong but the b16 auto isn't all that great for highway mileage and my commute is mostly highway. If I had it to do all over again I would buy a b16 auto and have the final drive gear swapped for a highway gear if that's at all possible but at that time I was just figuring everything out and I still am. The deceptive part is how cheap the LS automatics and B20s are but beware to those that do the swap it's a wiring, sensor and computer nightmare amongst other things!!

 

So if my car is not wanting to downshift my cable is too tight? Is that correct? If so I may have other problems because when I push on the cable it seems too loose. I'm starting to think tps could be my issue because if I ever push it hard to make it downshift the car starts lightly surging like it has power then doesn't have power (sort of like someone is pushing the gas then letting off but it's not me) while cruising at Interstate speeds.

 

I loosened the nut on the left side (my left facing the car) of throttle cable and tightened the nut on the other side (right) and went for a test drive and wow my car is much more responsive and will downshift when I push the gas down now. I decided to adjust a bit more and the rpms ramped up so I backed if off until it idled ok. I hope this helps anyone else that searches this problem online because all other instructions I found just confused me. I'll admit though I've seen people mention slack in the line and I don't know if they meant pulling it sideways or sliding it back and forth inline with the cable.

My only issue left now is a slightly annoying rpm rise to about 1200rpm then it chugs down to 800rpm and this cycles back and forth. I think I'll look into checking the tps next but I don't know this ones a bit baffling...maybe even an egr issue I dunno

 

I'm not very good with which cable adjustment does what but like I said, I'd adjust it one way and if symptoms were better then I know I made the right adjustment. If symptoms got worse after the adjustment, then I knew I'd adjusted the cable the wrong way.

I imagine putting the ls auto in was quite a headache considering the trans is controlled by a computer itself. Swapping in the b16 auto was somewhat easy for my integra. All I needed to do was take the wires from the trans computer that went to the lock up solenoids and reroute them to the ecu and use a chipped automatic civic ecu. Putting the b16 auto into your civic, assuming it was an auto from the get go, would've been cake and not needed any wiring.

 

100% TPS sensor. Mine did the exact same thing. It would jump rpm because it was jumping out of the torque converter lockup.