I prematurely submitted the above posted before finishing my notes and the subsequent edit somehow didn't take. The brickboard has had problems doing edits in recent years. The above was a reply to some old transmission post I did that was related to different shift points, gearing and lockup torque speeds with the various trans, including a link to the Volvo AW transmission manual and specs.

My added notes were to suggest checking the integrity of your kickdown cable to make sure the end is fully seated into the trans, retracts freely when pulled and released (not internally frayed and sticky), then attempt another adjustment starting with the freeplay gap to the little brass ferrel (about 1/8" from the end of the cable nipple as I recall, see the manual) then adjusting loose to hear the pawl on the end of the cable in the transmission kickdown chamber thunk against the bottom of the chamber when plucked then tighten the cable until the thunk just goes away. Gunk in the bottom of the kickdown chamber can prevent you from hearing the thunk and if there's lots of gunk it will affect shifting.
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Dave -still with 940's, prev 740/240/140/120 You'd think I'd have learned by now