Beyond confused, change clutch master n slave, now no start
06-08-2017, 07:36 PM
#1
Instructor
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Beyond confused, change clutch master n slave, now no start
Beyond confused, change clutch master n slave, now no start. Hear click behind dash. Check clutch safety switch, even took it apart to confirm how it works. Pedal up makes connection, pedal down breaks it. Started fine yesterday.
06-08-2017, 07:48 PM
#2
Melting Slicks
Did you Disconnect the Battery while doing the job, Because a Loose Battery Connection can be the problem to.
You may want to get under the car and see if the Starter request is getting down to the starter Solenoid.
Last edited by s carter; 06-08-2017 at 08:00 PM.
06-09-2017, 03:57 PM
#3
Safety Car
Being you have a manual and you've messed with the clutch master cylinder, got a nickel that says the switch on the clutch pedal is either out of adjustment or got broken during the change-out.
Look up on the clutch pedal way up on the pivot for a switch. Temporarily disconnect the wiring harness from it and jumper it. Now try starting the car - bet it works. If it does, check the FSM on setting up the adjustment on it correctly if the switch checks out ok. If not, I've not found a replacement so you may have to leave it jumpered.
Let us know what you find. Good luck.
PS there's a switch about half way up the clutch pedal, that's the wrong one. That ones for disengaging the cruise control. The one at the top is the one that when you depress the clutch pedal is one of the components for energizing the starter.
Look up on the clutch pedal way up on the pivot for a switch. Temporarily disconnect the wiring harness from it and jumper it. Now try starting the car - bet it works. If it does, check the FSM on setting up the adjustment on it correctly if the switch checks out ok. If not, I've not found a replacement so you may have to leave it jumpered.
Let us know what you find. Good luck.
PS there's a switch about half way up the clutch pedal, that's the wrong one. That ones for disengaging the cruise control. The one at the top is the one that when you depress the clutch pedal is one of the components for energizing the starter.
Last edited by hcbph; 06-09-2017 at 03:59 PM.
06-15-2017, 03:08 PM
#4
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Ok i see now well can't see that is. Can't force my body in enough to see the top one. Im just seeing the cruise switch. So seat removal is in order grrrr. Worst part is last week after the two days of trying i pulled or strained something where my right arm wouldn't move with serious pain. Why now im just getting back to it....
06-15-2017, 03:19 PM
#5
Safety Car
Been there, wrote the book. Took me a couple of weeks to figure it out and get it jumpered. You have no idea how many times I came back to the wrong switch (the cruise control one), that's why I made specific reference to the correct one.
You could try a light, a mirror and a little luck and see it from the bottom without taking out the seat. Just pull the connector off the switch and make up a little jumper, plug it into the connector and try starting the car.
Good luck.
You could try a light, a mirror and a little luck and see it from the bottom without taking out the seat. Just pull the connector off the switch and make up a little jumper, plug it into the connector and try starting the car.
Good luck.
Last edited by hcbph; 06-15-2017 at 03:22 PM.
06-15-2017, 04:03 PM
#6
Instructor
Thread Starter
Even just searching for the word switch. I get 12 pages of stuff, clutch is not listed. Its a barrel switch with linkage rod, no adjustment. Must be bad.
06-15-2017, 04:36 PM
#7
Pro
Being you have a manual and you've messed with the clutch master cylinder, got a nickel that says the switch on the clutch pedal is either out of adjustment or got broken during the change-out.
Look up on the clutch pedal way up on the pivot for a switch. Temporarily disconnect the wiring harness from it and jumper it. Now try starting the car - bet it works. If it does, check the FSM on setting up the adjustment on it correctly if the switch checks out ok. If not, I've not found a replacement so you may have to leave it jumpered.
Let us know what you find. Good luck.
PS there's a switch about half way up the clutch pedal, that's the wrong one. That ones for disengaging the cruise control. The one at the top is the one that when you depress the clutch pedal is one of the components for energizing the starter.
Look up on the clutch pedal way up on the pivot for a switch. Temporarily disconnect the wiring harness from it and jumper it. Now try starting the car - bet it works. If it does, check the FSM on setting up the adjustment on it correctly if the switch checks out ok. If not, I've not found a replacement so you may have to leave it jumpered.
Let us know what you find. Good luck.
PS there's a switch about half way up the clutch pedal, that's the wrong one. That ones for disengaging the cruise control. The one at the top is the one that when you depress the clutch pedal is one of the components for energizing the starter.
This it ?
https://www.vette2vette.com/?q=produ...-switch-manual
06-15-2017, 05:07 PM
#8
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06-15-2017, 06:01 PM
#9
Safety Car
That's the switch but the 84-86 has a different setup so that one won't work in my case. I just left it jumpered, being I'm the only one driving it I know about it. When I take it into the garage I have a note I post on the dash that the switch is bypassed.
No big deal, I grew up without a clutch switch in the vehicles, so I deal with it that way.
No big deal, I grew up without a clutch switch in the vehicles, so I deal with it that way.
06-15-2017, 08:13 PM
#10
Race Director
This is wrong. Pedal down completes the connection so the car will start. Pedal up breaks the connection. Car will not start.
06-15-2017, 08:47 PM
#11
Instructor
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See post 4, basically everyone finds the cruise switch. The real one is burried deep up high out of sight n reach. Big aluminum brace blocks easily seeing it
06-16-2017, 12:40 PM
#12
Instructor
Thread Starter
Tapped into wires with 35amp switch, put out of sight but easy to reach. With seat out was able to clean well. Lubed up seat track. Put seat back in, shut door n ran into house DAM its hot out...