The kickdown connection

I bought a carb spacer but then figured it may create a problem for the kickdown rod, which it seems to do. Now that I needed to check that, I used the opportunity to finally look at how the kickdown actually is hooked up and how it's operated.

When the throttle lever is being pulled all the way, it pushes the kickdown rod along with it. The kickdown adjusting screw can be used to make sure the kickdown rod is about half a mm before it's end of movement when the throttle is wide open.

You can see how it's hooked up in the above picture. Below you see a short movie clip in which you can see how everything moves.