I just installed a B&M shifter in my 1966 Coronet 500. It had a factory floor shifter in it originally. I do not remember unhooking the neutral safety switch when installing my new shifter but am sure I have. Would it have been somehow attached to the rod linkage by the transmission. The old wiring harness beneath the original shifter had console light, reverse light and gear selection lighting but nothing for the neutral safety switch.

My car will not start now and I have changed nothing else. I doubt I have shorted anything out just need some help.

Any suggestions where to look?? My new shifter came with a switch but I can not figure out where to attach those wires to.

davemoorepm@yahoo.com

 

Do you see a wire coming off the trans ... in the area of the shift linkage?

 

I have not looked there for any switch or wiring. I am guessing I may have unhooked it when I removed the factory shifter. So you are telling me the switch is physically on the transmission and nowhere inside the car?

When I find the switch will I be able to run 2 jumper wires from my new shifter to the existing switch or is it a mechanical type switch like the back up light switch was on the factory shifter?

Thanks Doc.

 

The only switch or wiring that would be on the shifter would be the back-up lites.

Depending on what year the trans is ... the switch should be either a single wire(with a nut on a threaded terminal) ...or a 3 prong plug.

 

It is the orginal transmission and engine. I will look this weekend for either type. Thanks again.

 

A 66 would be a single wire.

 

Doc,

I pains me greatly to admit that I did not have my car in neutral even though I pushed it about two feet in my barn.

Yes I found it and no I had not unhooked it. I put it in park hit the gas a couple times and it fired on the second hit.

Finished hooking up the shifter cable yesterday and now the new shifter project is complete.


Thanks again for your help,

 

GOOD to hear that you are all set ...