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Subject:Re: Van not starting, auto tranny, gear selector position dependent
From:C. Abney
Date:Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:49:55 -0700

Could it be the neutral safety switch?

http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_775_353/automatic_neutral_safety_switch_kit.html

On 9/21/16, Marc Perdue <mcperdue@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My van just started being finicky about starting, but it's not a
> starter issue, I'm pretty sure. I'd turn the key, nothing. I'd turn it
> again, and it would start fine. Later, I'd turn the key, nothing, take
> it out of Park and put it back into Park and it would start. Today
> that didn't work, but it would start if I put it in Neutral. Then even
> later it was fussy about that and I finally got it to start by holding
> the key in the starting position and changing the transmission
> selector from something else into Neutral. This strikes me as being a
> problem with a switch in the gear selector housing. Am I right about
> this? If so, what's the part that I need to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Marc Perdue
>

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