Starting problem PLZ HELP!!!
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From: Jacksonville Florida
Just a thought--If the neutral safety switch is a little out of alignment on the shifter it may not start in P or N. Mine was out and if you nudged the shifter a bit the switch would close. Only had to align the switch properly to fix the problem. Try moving the shifter a little while turning the ignition switch to start. You may get an answer with little effort.
However this is no replacement for getting a meter or test light and confirming the diagnosis. Part swapping is a pet peeve of mine. Spent most of my working life troubleshooting HVAC controls and seen a lot of guys replacing parts on a guess. That's very expensive and time consuming unless you just lucky. I'm not seeing that(lucky) here.
~Rick
However this is no replacement for getting a meter or test light and confirming the diagnosis. Part swapping is a pet peeve of mine. Spent most of my working life troubleshooting HVAC controls and seen a lot of guys replacing parts on a guess. That's very expensive and time consuming unless you just lucky. I'm not seeing that(lucky) here.
~Rick
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why is that everyone starts replacing parts instead of buying a cheap test light or meter to check things out??? Its usually a lot easier to check things than to lay on your back to change part after part after part, and still not start? It would of paid for a very expensive meter by now!
Just a thought--If the neutral safety switch is a little out of alignment on the shifter it may not start in P or N. Mine was out and if you nudged the shifter a bit the switch would close. Only had to align the switch properly to fix the problem. Try moving the shifter a little while turning the ignition switch to start. You may get an answer with little effort.
However this is no replacement for getting a meter or test light and confirming the diagnosis. Part swapping is a pet peeve of mine. Spent most of my working life troubleshooting HVAC controls and seen a lot of guys replacing parts on a guess. That's very expensive and time consuming unless you just lucky. I'm not seeing that(lucky) here.
~Rick
However this is no replacement for getting a meter or test light and confirming the diagnosis. Part swapping is a pet peeve of mine. Spent most of my working life troubleshooting HVAC controls and seen a lot of guys replacing parts on a guess. That's very expensive and time consuming unless you just lucky. I'm not seeing that(lucky) here.
~Rick
Will he use it?
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Cruising
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I have a multimeter my original starter was bad and my battery wasnt good . Well on the bright side I bypassed the ignition with a push button and it cranks , so I went and bought a new ignition switch and will probably install it tomorrow so at least I was able to hear the car turn over great noise considering I bought the car like a month ago 
and between the wife and work only had a hour or two a night to work on it .
Thanks for all the advice guys
and between the wife and work only had a hour or two a night to work on it .Thanks for all the advice guys
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Cruising
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Yep you are right I checked the neutral safety and it checked out fine when I started checking the ignition switch it didn't hold but a few times , so it runs but I think I either have a vacume leak or bad actuators because the lights come on but do not come up , as well as the gauges don't work but I think it's just a fuse or loose wire hopefully so I will be checking those in the next day or so I'm more interested in running it a bit and letting some of the old gas burn off
