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No start: instrument panel lights all on ('93 940 156K) 900

posted by  spook on  Sun Dec 13 15:03 CST 2015
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Dear Fellow Brickboarders,

Hope you're well. Stopped car briefly. Wouldn't re-start: all instrument panel lights "on"; battery good and cables corrosion-free. Moved shift lever to neutral a few times. Still no start. Got a tow. Next day, started fine.

Is this problem caused by failure of the micro-switch mounted on shifter housing's outside wall (passenger side), towards the top (closest to the gear-selector cover) and towards the front of the shifter housing (the tranny's "park" postion)?

This microswitch is secured by two inside-toothed washers, pressed on to plastic posts, that protrude from the shifter housing's outside wall. Two black wires go to this micro-switch. One wire goes to the shifter's harness. The second goes inside the shifter housing. These two wires are soldered to micro-switch contacts. The micro-switch's arm points downwards, i.e., towards the car's floorpan.

In the FAQs - under starting problems - there's a reference to "no start" condition caused by an out-of-adjustment "rod" near the transmission, accessible underneath the car. However, there's no description of the rod or its precise location. While I've changed tranny shifter linkage bushings, I don't recall seeing any adjustable rod in that area.

Can anyone describe this rod precisely, if this rod likely relates to the "no start" condition.

Thanks for your help!

Yours faithfully,

Spook






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