Thank you Diesel911 for responding. You are absolutely right about changing 2 or more things at once, I considered just changing the fluid and doing the K1 spring another time to see if the Redline D4 would make a difference on it’s own regarding the delay into drive. I could not overcome the urge to do both at the same time because I had it on my friends lift – what a joy to stand up under the car!

I did double check the Bowden Cable adjustment. Popped off the socket and it’s perfectly centered with no cable tension or slack above the male part.

This morning I found the problem!!!

The Bowden Cable female end socket mounts to a plate with the male part that pivots with the throttle linkage. That independent plate slipped off it’s ‘stop’ on the plate below it pivots with. So when you gave it throttle it did not move or pull the cable at all. Hard to visualize unless you look at the mechanism and give it throttle. I focused on the cable adjustment but could not see the problem until I gave it throttle and saw no movement of the cable. When I did the trans I also adjusted the valves (after installing a new head from Metric Motors). The bowden linkage must have been disturbed by the valve cover R&R.

The car now shifts like a dream. The thicker Redline trans fluid compared to Dexron VI also cured the hot 1.5 second delay going into drive from reverse.

Still can't find info on the K2 spring...

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