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Subject:Re: That's it, I've had it. (Driving with brake on)
From:BenT Syncro
Date:Sat, 3 Jul 2010 13:19:08 -0700

As Edward mentioned, neutral safety switch is in the shifter console.
Wires go from there to the main harness.

BenT

Sent from my neural safety switch

On Jul 3, 2010, at 12:31 PM, "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM
 > wrote:

> This is the third time I've forgotten to take off the parking brake
> before driving. It's not like the brakes are so monstrous that I'll
> notice on the first quarter-mile downhill away from the house, and my
> sitting position places the steering wheel right between the dash
> Brake
> light and my eyesballs.
>
> I'm gonna rig some alarm to sound when the Brake warning light is on
> and
> the transmission is in gear.
>
> Mellow Yellow has an automatic transmission, and the starter won't
> turn
> if the van is not in Park, so there's some wire that connects to a
> switch on the shift linkage or something. I can't find that wire in
> Bentleys.
>
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR