kickdown cable replacement. Arrgh!.

After somewhat frying my auto box I ended up buying a secondhand 'box off the mighty ebay. Unfortunately, the utter muppet who removed the box did so by cutting through anything that slowed him down. The box is known to be good, but his removal technique, whilst effective, involved cutting the kickdown cable, along with the rear prop, handbrake cable, gearbox mountings and anything else that may have slowed him down. I wasn't worried about this as the things he'd cut through were all easily removable, and no use to me anyway.

Or so I thought. I've now read the workshop CD, and particularly the page that involves stripping half the box to replace the kickdown cable. Oh bugger.

It mentions a couple of special tools, which, needless to say, I don't have. One is a "kickdown cable remover LST112", oh joy, the other is a "selector linkage setting gauge LST109".

Anyone done this without 'em? Or does anyone around Merseyside or East Lancs have 'em for me to borrow??

Bad form and all that, but turns out you can remove the kickdown cable with two judiciously placed flat head screwdrivers; but you have to have the gearbox in bits.