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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

I finally got the car fixed. The tow truck guy wouldn't come into my 
driveway because it was too icy. He took the tow truck back to the shop and 
brought out the service truck. He crawled under the car and banged on 
something (starter, I later found out) until the car started. He followed me 
back to the shop and replaced the starter. He said it was possibly the 
original starter on a '93 car (she only takes it to that shop, and they 
hadn't replaced it in 10 years), so my mother got the full use of that 
starter.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Car problem


> Did you try to start in neutral? If the brake does not move at all then 
> the
> brake interlock is not working.  One option would be to remove or 
> disconnect
> the brake switch(s) and manually activate them.
>
> We had an Altima that acted similarly.  It would not start in park but 
> would
> in Neutral.  I disconnected what I thought was the safety switch and got 
> it
> to working again.  I noticed the brake lights were not working and 
> replaced
> the brake light switch then reconnected the interlock.  The interlock
> stopped shifting into neutral until the brake was depressed, the brake 
> light
> switch allowed starting in park but had no affect in neutral.
>
> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
>
>
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