What I'm saying is that first little cable is attatched to the handle. It is supposed to stay attatched.
Now with the reseting, I guess Todras never had to do it, but with my lever assembly I had to. If you look at the assembly, you will see there is not 1 toothed gear but two. The one with the larger teeth is the one that is used when you operate your handle as normal. The noise you hear pulling up...its those teeth. Now there is another gear in there with much smaller teeth. And laying atop this gear is a little switch or lever, that can be pulled up, and the gear can be moved. Basically, it gives you about 2 more inches of play in the line, so that if you connect your lines, then dont have enough slack to put in the 2 bolts to hold the lever down, you need to reset this gear to give ya the extra couple inches.
Now Todras didn't have to, but I did. I know there used to be a little write up with pictures over at fordcontour.org that TH did, might wanna try and find that. (it was from the end of summer I believe)