Clutch/Starter safety switch ??
10-03-2008, 04:49 PM
#1
Race Director
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Clutch/Starter safety switch ??
Seems I really have to push the clutch pedal into the mat before it will start. Just started recently. Can you adjust the switch ? Has anyone had a similar problem and if so what was the fix 
10-03-2008, 08:36 PM
#4
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There is a pic in post 4 that shows the safety switch.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...118&highlight=
EDIT-I've been thinking and I might be wrong about the switch being adjustable.I was thinking that I had adjusted them before but I must have only replaced them.Looking at the pic it looks as if changing the rod length would be the only way to adjust.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...118&highlight=
EDIT-I've been thinking and I might be wrong about the switch being adjustable.I was thinking that I had adjusted them before but I must have only replaced them.Looking at the pic it looks as if changing the rod length would be the only way to adjust.
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10-04-2008, 07:22 PM
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My '74 is adjustble just like in the link pix of post #4. But u can bypass it if desired and problematic. Found mine not even working when a less than average garage manager reached in and turned the key that pushed my car forward - just lucky it didn't start! He explained he thought it was an auto - too dumb or lazy to look at the console stick shift. Another moment to remember. Another reason to do all my own mainentance no matter how easy or difficult.
10-04-2008, 07:37 PM
#7
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My '74 is adjustble just like in the link pix of post #4. But u can bypass it if desired and problematic. Found mine not even working when a less than average garage manager reached in and turned the key that pushed my car forward - just lucky it didn't start! He explained he thought it was an auto - too dumb or lazy to look at the console stick shift. Another moment to remember. Another reason to do all my own mainentance no matter how easy or difficult.
10-04-2008, 07:47 PM
#8
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My '74 is adjustble just like in the link pix of post #4. But u can bypass it if desired and problematic. Found mine not even working when a less than average garage manager reached in and turned the key that pushed my car forward - just lucky it didn't start! He explained he thought it was an auto - too dumb or lazy to look at the console stick shift. Another moment to remember. Another reason to do all my own mainentance no matter how easy or difficult.
Not recomended. I have heard many a story go bad on this. One in particular. Guy started up his car, owned it for many years and knew it inside and out. He had been working on the carbs, dual quad. Hit the key and it started wide open. He had one foot in the car other out. Car just laid rubber right through the back of the garage out heading into the woods. Luckily, if you can call it that a shelf above had a bucket of nuts and bolts. The engine ingested the nuts and blew on its way out the back into the woods. Ripped his foot almost off. he was out of commission for quite a while. To many bad stories on this. It is an easy fix for what could be a major disaster.
10-04-2008, 09:43 PM
#10
Race Director
Anybody know if a 68 is adjustable......maybe I'm loosing it but I swear I've adjusted a clutch switch before.Maybe it was another car.Maybe its just the style of the switch.
