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The only thing I can think of suggesting, would be very easy to do if you can remember to. Change your routine slightly. Before starting, pull the p-brake. Turn the key to kp-II, and wiggle the shifter, listening for a click coming from the shift lock relay in the center console around the coin tray.
If you don't hear one, use the manual release to get yourself in neutral - keep your foot off of the brake (remember p-brake it set) and move the shifter slowly around the neutral point until you can hear the relay engage as the neutral safety switch completes the circuit to its coil. This will verify the fuse 12 circuit all the way through the relay, neutral safety switch, and to ground through the starter itself.
Now, with it in neutral, shift relay engaged, step on the brake pedal, listening for the solenoid in the shifter. Because the manual release has now limited the solenoid's plunger travel, it won't be loud, but you'll be able to hear it engage if things are quiet where you are and the plunger isn't gunked up. The circuit here is fuse 6, through the brake light switch, relay contacts and solenoid and back to ground. I'm not familiar with where, exactly, the solenoid's black wire goes to ground. Maybe there's a loose screw there?
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Art Benstein near Baltimore
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