Installing Art Car valve body and shifter (HELP)

[crab]

Just purchased the art carr manual valve body and shifter from Wild Horses. There are pretty much NO INSTRUCTIONS on either. I can figure out the shifter and gave a good start on the valve body.
Questions:
1 Do I still need the kickdown linkage or remove it?
2 With the stock valve body out, should I be able to move the linkage to the park position and will the linkage stay? Just the weight of the linkage allows it to fall out of park right now. Had problems with it jumping out of park in the past.
3 How should the linkage hang when installing the art car valve body? Mid stroke, then adjust cable from there?
Any help would be greatly appriciated.
Thanks...........Crab

 

[Steve]

Can't help ya with the valve body, but maybe with the shifter questions. I just installed a Winters Performance (AWESOME shifter) on mine last night. I installed it with the trans (C4) in 1st gear, and adjusted the cable from there. As for the kickdown linkage, I don't have anything connected to it, but found out you must have it (or something, like even a washer) connected or it will leak. The kickdown link on the trans attaches with a bolt through the middle of the shift linkage on the trans, and without something there the bolt can move and you'll have a slow leak. I just put the kickdown link back on and didn't hook it up to anything.

 

[SC74]

My Art Carr is ordered from Wild Horses and I expect for the big brown truck to deliver it today. I've still got to get my C4 in the truck (doing a 3 spd. to C4 conversion), but plan on installing the shifter next week hopefully. I'm hoping to fit it in the same hole the 3 spd. floor shifter was in - on the fiberglass tunnel piece that extends the tunnel towards the driver. I had also planned on attaching a kick down linkage, but I'm also runnning a carb. Steve - are you running carb or EFI?

 

[SC74]

Check out art carr's website (www.artcarr.com). They have product instructions there that you may have not gotten with the shifter. Good Luck.

 

[Steve]

Steve - are you running carb or EFI?

EFI. And since mine's a trailer queen rock crawler that sees very limited street use I have no need for the kickdown to function, but as I said, something's gotta be fastened on the end of the shifter "rod" on the C4 or it'll leak.

 

[rmfreeze]

Is this it? http://www.artcarr.com/instructions/20470.pdf

 

[Landshark]

Just purchased the art carr manual valve body and shifter from Wild Horses. There are pretty much NO INSTRUCTIONS on either. I can figure out the shifter and gave a good start on the valve body.
Questions:
1 Do I still need the kickdown linkage or remove it?
2 With the stock valve body out, should I be able to move the linkage to the park position and will the linkage stay? Just the weight of the linkage allows it to fall out of park right now. Had problems with it jumping out of park in the past.
3 How should the linkage hang when installing the art car valve body? Mid stroke, then adjust cable from there?
Any help would be greatly appriciated.
Thanks...........Crab

Well I would think the kick down linkage would be no more (You have a manual
valve body now, so there is no "auto" feature anymore). On # 2, are you still able to use the neutral safety switch? If so just put the trans into neutral and stick the pin or nail into the hole on the neutral safety switch to lock it into neutral. Then put the shifter into neutral and adjust the cable accordingly.
Not sure at all on #3, sorry.

 

[WILDHORSES]

These should have been in with the shifter. View attachment 8353 i 6_09_05_0.pdf If you can't open this call and we can fax them. We are working on Bronco specific brackets. See you at SOB Rob.

 

[crab]

Thanks for all the help this far...........
So I got the linkage out and removed the kickdown all together. The new valve body comes with a freeze plug that seals the end of the shaft where the kickdown used to be (nice).
I just pulled the art carr valve body out of the bag and immediatly noticed something rolling around in the valve body. Sounds like a BB rolling around inside. Is this normal or should I be concerned with my new $300 valve body?
Also, is there a seal or something on the linkage shaft where it goes through the case?