Steve,
I realize I posted many questions. I got on a role and was hoping someone could reference me to an article considering there are many related posts. I wish I had a digital camera to post a pik.

Your comment "Unless you pull off some Houdini act (I hear it can be done ), you will need to pull some amount of the valve body to hook the trans end of the cable." sounds like the justification for the 3 hrs labor. A knuckle buster I am - a Houdini I'm not.

dtf
From what I understand, it controls the shift delay based on the cat temp as you said.

Dokta
Thanks for the explaination. Hopefully, I can get to it this wekend.

To all
It shifts smoother now that it's disconnected.
Bob