If you look under your car on the left side of the
trans. you will find a drain plug, above that is a
shelf about 1inch deep. If you follow your hand down
the shelf to the front of the trans you will touch
your nuetral start switch. It has a pin on it for a
wire. Behind it is your kickdown band adjustment
screw. yours must be bad. It looks real easy to get
to in the manuel??? RC
--- Hugh & Therese <hugtrees@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >
Philippe,
>
> I am delighted you have found the source of your
> transmission problems. The
> cable attachment is very delicate and the smallest
> movement can make a huge
> difference. As you know, I suspected it was the
> cable attachment.
>
> However, I am still more than a little confused by
> your statements that the
> 57/58s have a neutral safety switch. I'm afraid
> your previous email on the
> topic went completely over my head. You say the
> cars have two such
> switches. I still think, if you will pardon my
> ignorance, that they do not
> have any. Mine certainly does not. Just today, I
> started mine in drive,
> with my foot on the brake. Because the car, mine at
> least, has no such
> safety switch, it is always prudent to start it with
> one's foot on the
> brake. The car has been known to be in gear even
> with the neutral switch
> pressed in, due to poor positioning of the gear
> selector cable.
>
> With no 'P' (parking) position, the lack of a
> neutral safety switch is all
> the more dangerous.
>
> I understand the element of preventing the starter
> motor from being engaged
> if the engine is already running. I would not call
> this a neutral safety
> switch in the sense which most people understand the
> term. It is simply a
> mechanism to avoid the starter being energized again
> once the engine is
> already running. The other switch you described, if
> I understand correctly,
> is simply the device that activates the starter when
> the neutral button is
> completely pushed for the purpose of starting the
> car. In your case, the
> starter was engaged when you fully pressed in the
> neutral switch. Because
> the cable was no longer attached and your engine was
> locked in reverse, you
> were able to start the car in reverse. The starter
> button, which is the
> neutral button, did its job as designed. Excuse my
> lack of perception, but
> I see nothing in the two systems you describe as
> neutral safety switches
> that would prevent the car from starting even though
> the transmission was
> locked in reverse.
>
> This gets me back to my own experiences with poor
> adjustments on the gear
> selector cable and the need to have your foot on the
> brake just in case. My
> car fits in my garage only if the front fender
> touches the garage wall at
> the front. Not a good time to have a Hemi sized
> power surge!
>
> This may come across as counting angels on the head
> of a pin. Neither of
> the two devices you mentioned would have prevented
> the car from starting in
> reverse in your circumstances and it is very
> doubtful if either were
> circumvented at all because both are needed to start
> the car. The design is
> simply not very good because it actually allows the
> engine to be started in
> circumstances such as yours, and mine.
>
> Hugh
>
>
>
>
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