Okay I just finished rebuilding my wobbly steering column " one serious job" and now the starter wont engage. Narrowed it down to the neutral safety switch mounted on the clutch pedal which I never touched.
Check out the pics. The plastic rod attached to the pedal slides through the safety switch. Problem is the rod does not push the slide in the switch. It just goes through it when the pedal is pushed.

I jumped out the switch and all is well. What am I missing? Seems like the plastic rod should have a collar or something on it to push the slide.
86 SE 4 speed 2.8




Spoon
ps: That's my pick in the pics

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"Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne." - Kurt Vonnegut

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Bad switch would be my first guess. try putting the sliding the swatch rod by hand while it disconnected from the Colum but still plugged in and see if it starts, if it does then its not the switch, if you understand what I am saying. its been years since I have been under the dash.

Hope that helps because for the life of me I can't remember what the switch looks like, if it has anything like a button on the end of that rod or not.

Steve

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and one big pain in the ass when it doesn't



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This should help:

www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum2/HTML/123269.html

I'm pretty sure Rube Goldberg designed that switch. So many moving parts to keep you from jerking the car a little!

Yes there should be a plastic nut on that long plastic shaft, which is treaded if you look closely. The nut may have come off. Maybe it's under the seat or behind the carpet. Mine would slip down the shaft instead of grabbing on the threads. I solved that by tying a bread tie behind it. If you can't find the nut you can probably buy one or use a washer held in place with a bread tie instead. You may also need a spacer which can also be bought at a hardware store.

You can buy a whole switch for less than twenty bucks. It might be worth it.

Bypassing can have it's problems. My GT has a bypass which has come out many times. It's not that hard to fix now that I know, but it's still a nuisance. It was a huge problem until I found it. If someone else is using your car they're liable to abandon it somewhere if they can't reach you. It took me a couple days to figure it out on my second Fiero.

I took a piec of wire about 1" long and soldered 2 male blade connectors to it. Pushed them into the slots and it's been sitting there for about a year and a half with no issues. If you want to do it right though, get a new switch rather than fight with one that isn't quite right.

You guys are the greatest.
84fiero123
Bloozberry
85 SE VIN 9
NetCam

I found the missing link. have no idea how it came off but it was in 2 pieces lying on the floor under tools.. I threw them in my junk bucket as "where did these come from".


I did check the switch off the car earlier with a meter and it was good.

Plus for all

CLW

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"Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne." - Kurt Vonnegut

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