who rebuilds / installs transmissions for a living? 700r4 question

My question is for my daily driver, but would pertain to anyone using a 700r4, so hopefully its ok for this site.

Adjusting the throttle vavle cable - now all the manuals and most of the websites tell you the generic way to set the cable via the ratching mech. system on the cable and wide open throttle.

Some of the web sites explain that at wide open throttle the lever that pushes the throttle valve in should be touching the throttle valve bushing, and that this is done to set the throttle valve vs the throttle linkage rotation.

One site I found says that the step montioned above preloads the throttle valve and shows the lever that pushs the throttle valve touching the face of the throttle valve at idle.

On my daily, the lever is about 1/8th of an inch or more off the face of the throttle valve at idle after being set properly. That is with the throttle valve all the way out being stopped by the bushing.

My question is, at idle should the lever be touching the face of the throttle valve at idle? or should there be a gap?

Sorry for the long explaination, but I really dont feel like damaging my trans over an adjustment or simple cable replacement if needed.

Thanks guys

 

bowtietransmission.com has the clearest explanation that I've found on how to set up the TV cable

 

they are the ones that show the lever touching the valve at idle and preloads the valve, but for how far my cable travels with factory linkage and tbi, not sure if that is true.

my cable might be bad but the way its acting it would have to be short.

my shifts where off a little but my motor had problems, I'm in the process of swapping the motor and trying to check everything in the process.

Im more than likely just set it, put it back together and see what happens.

 

I worked in a transmission shop back when the 700R4 first came out. After a overhaul we would push the adjuster back towards the firewall 3/4 of the way. We would take a screwdriver with us on the road test driving only at light throttle. If it shifted late it was too far back (tight) or too early too far forward (loose). Never drive it when the shifts are way early and on top of each other cause you will burn it up, too late is not as big a deal because they are firm shifts. The whole adjusting the cable at WOT only applied to TH350's as that was the adjustment for p***ing gear (kickdown).