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Brandon
Dodge Dakota
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5/13/2007
21:41:12
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We are switching from a auto to a manual and we are almost finished but now it wont crank. We tried to ground the neutral safety switch but it fried our alligator clip up. What could be going on?
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Bob Lincoln
Dodge Dakota
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5/14/2007
08:12:13
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Sounds like you grounded your battery. You're supposed to put a jumper across the switch, not from hot lead to ground!
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fotodak
Dodge Dakota
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5/14/2007
11:04:30
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The manual tranny has a switch that is connected to the clutch pedal requiring the pedal to be depressed to start. Do ya have that wired in?
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Shoe
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5/14/2007
18:58:25
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That is what the neutral safety switch is.
'97 RC V6, 5spd, soon to be V8, 5spd!
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fotodak
Dodge Dakota
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5/15/2007
16:22:42
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Not to be persnicketty, but a nuetral safety switch only allows the engine to be started in Park or Neutral. The manual trans can be started in any gear, but the clutch pedal must be depressed.
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Bob Lincoln
Dodge Dakota
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5/16/2007
08:26:43
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And it's known as the starter safety switch. Jumper across it and all should be good.
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fotodak
Dodge Dakota
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5/16/2007
13:43:02
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Now it's the STARTER safety switch.
I thought it was the NEUTRAL switch.
The reason it's called the STARTER safety switch? Because it will allow the starter to engage in any gear.
Glad you agreed with me.
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dakota49
Dodge Dakota
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5/16/2007
17:11:00
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I don't know about the other guys, but since you changed the trans your self I doubt if you hooked up the wires for the starter safty switch in the first place. I think you can just change the positive cable wireing and go straight to the starter instead of going to the neutral safty switch. Or just wire past the switch and be done with it. I can remember when cars, and trucks didn't have the clutch switch, in fact if you go to a big truck dealer like Mack, or simular they still don't have any such switch. I drive a 2000 Freightliner and it doesn't have such a switch.
Goodluck, let us know how you like the 5speed.
Dakota49
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Shoe
GenIII
5/16/2007
18:58:24
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All the switch does is ensure on a manual transmission that the clutch pedal is engaged. I had a Samurai and we took it off and all you had to do was turn the key over and it would start whether the pedal was pressed in or not.
'97 RC V6, 5spd, soon to be V8, 5spd!
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