The tranny on my 940 turbo has been shifting a little sluggishly lately. On a long trip a couple days ago it shifted out of OD and wouldn't shift back up. I stopped and manually cycled the kick-down cable, and the tranny shifted into OD when it was supposed to the rest of the trip. When I pulled and released the cable it didn't initially return to a taught position, but after a few cycles it did. Is there a spring in the transmission that returns the cable to the idle position? Could that spring be weakening? Can it be replaced or do I need to replace the whole cable? One other thing I noticed was that the little rubber cap closing the sheathed length of the cable at its throttle block termination had been cut thru by the cable and left a sticky residue on the cable. Could this have contributed to the transmission's slow shifts?

I don't know about down in the transmission but my '93 940 NA was shifting late. I found that I had dislodged the sheath for the kickdown cable where it mounts up by the throttle pulley. I had been reaching down under the intake manifold for something and managed to push that sheath so it was crooked. This caused the cable inside the sheath to bind. After I straightened the sheath, the trans shifted just fine. No tools needed!