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Hi, Just had the neutral safety switch (NSS), the pin rig on the shifter, etc. repaired after several times when the car would not start. It acted just like the NSS was failing, ignit. sw would seem to work fine, worked in KP 2 and KP 3, but starter would not turn in KP 4. However, there was a bit of blinking in the idiot lights that does seem to indicate that the ig. switch was making contact in the switch, but that something else was keeping the starter from engaging.
Did it again last night, but, after a half-hour, it started. I noticed that the ignition lock was loose and moved around quite a bit. It was like the lock and whatever is behind it was set in an oar lock on a rowing shell. I could take the key and move the back end of the lock around a lot, by moving the key. Kind of like moving the flat end of an oar around by playing around with the handle end. There was no in-and-out play in the lock, so I could not pull it out. But it moved way to much for this to be normal tolerances.
Again, last night, there was some kind of response when the key hit KP4 or Start. The idiot lights dimmed, everything acted like it was in KP 4, but the starter did not run. So maybe the mechanics repair to the NSS was not complete? But the loose ignition switch did set my detective skills thinking in that direction.
There seems to be no correlation between wiggling the ignition switch lock and whether or not the car starts. Nor between playing with the shifter, or sticking fingers in where the NSS is.
Could there be something going on with the whole ignition lock/switch assembly that is preventing it from fully getting the ig. switch into Start (KP 4), or does this seem more like a shifter-neutral-safety-interlock kind of problem?
And, if it does seem like a NSS problem, does the loose ig. key thing sound like a problem waiting to happen, and I should fix it before it gets worse? Or do these cars do that (develop wiggly ignition switches) and it is nothing to worry about?
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1955 Human, Scott; 1991 745 Turbo, Thunderbolt; 1990 745GL, Posideon
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