Re: 70 console and shifter wiring

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Sounds like a plan. I never really thought about the thrust bearing in that light before.
Mark Price
mpriceATwestco.net
Morgantown, WV
69 AMC rambler, 4.0L, EFI, 5 speed 
65 Ambassador Conv, 327 AUTO, Basketcase
01 S-10 CREWCRAP 4X4



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From: "Armand Eshleman" <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: mail-From-mprice-westco.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Sat, 9 Apr 2005 08:37:28 -0500

>Thanks for the information Mark,
>Yeah in fact my T5 does have both neutral safety and back-up reverse light
>switch. I will have to adapt the wiring to
>those switches somehow. I think I will hook up the neutral safety, it makes
>more sense to me to have a neutral safety
>when starting the car than a clutch disengaged safety which may put
>non-lubricated pressures against the thrust bearing
>in the engine during start up. Then I would need to find neutral and leave
>the clutch disengaged to start the engine, which
>would prevent an in gear start-up, and safeguard the thrust bearing too.
>Am I thinking correctly on this?
>Armand
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