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 ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- 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 > >