Originally posted by Me ted: look under chassis electrical then under switches. then neutral safety switch.
Ah ok got it. What about Brapple's suggestion of the cruise control switch? I can't seem to find that.
I can see it being a possibility for the two switches is one for cruise and one for the neutral safety. Becasue... For the neutral safety switch to allow the starter to work the clutch needs to be just about on the floor. But... if you have cruise control on you can kick it off by just tapping the clutch pedal.
I'll bet a weeks pay that the two switches in the car are set up like this. For one switch to make its contacts it needs to be pressed in and for the other to make its contacts it needs to be let out.
check for voltage at the starter by testing for voltage at the large wire going to the starter. You should have the battery voltage here all the time. Then put the meter on the smaller wire and with the clutch pressed down turn the key to start the engine and thats when you should see battery voltage at the solenoid wire.
If you don't get power going to the smaller wire then there are probably any one of 3 things wrong, R6 is bad, the neutral safety switch is bad or the start contact in the ignition switch is bad.
I'm beginning to think more and more that becasue these two problems, the starter and the fuel pump seemed to happen almost simultaneously I'm starting to get a gut feeling that you need to invest some effort into testing the ignition switch. Becasue the ignition switch is the one individual part that is part of both systems.
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