Starting car without clutch pushed in

[timd38]

You could put a toggle switch inline to the safety switch so you flip the switch and starts without clutch depressed and the flip it back and cruise works. Don't know about the Mustang, but Corvettes have two, an upper and a lower, so that adds more complexity.

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[Norm Peterson]

Don't use a toggle switch (you might forget to turn it "off", leaving the car as if it never had a clutch interlock switch).

Use a momentary contact switch instead - it will at least default to "off", and by forcing you to use both hands every time it just might help remind you to check that the shifter is in the neutral gate. Better than nothing, but not as good as a (probably much more complicated) electrical means of determining that it's in neutral.


Norm

 

[doulos4jc]

OP, I did this on a BMW I had, for the same reason as you. Worked for a decade with no problems. I wired a remote kill switch(toggle) on the Mustang to the clutch pedal switch that works perfectly. There are only two wires going to that switch so bypassing altogether shouldn't be hard to do.

 

[timd38]

Don't use a toggle switch (you might forget to turn it "off", leaving the car as if it never had a clutch interlock switch).

Use a momentary contact switch instead - it will at least default to "off", and by forcing you to use both hands every time it just might help remind you to check that the shifter is in the neutral gate. Better than nothing, but not as good as a (probably much more complicated) electrical means of determining that it's in neutral.


Norm

Good idea, never thought of that, but then again, I never thought about bypassing the safety switch.

 

[jwhite]

Geez . . . dunno how any of us, ummm, older folks managed to survive, having to remember to step on the clutch all by ourselves without any reminders and only having muscle control and a little judgment available for speed control . . .

Next time I'm out in my '08 I'll have to see if the CC works. Don't use it otherwise.


Jason - you worry too much. The clutch pedal will still be there.


Norm

These kids these days have no clue what it was to ride in work or personal vehicles on a 5 gallon bucket for a seat, no seat belts, tires you found at the salvage yard cause that's all we could afford!!! Lol I'd venture to say prob most guys " kids "in here have no clue even what a 3 on the tree is, and I'd be great watching them trying to figure out how to drive one!! Lol
And if your real name is Norm Peterson, you could be the coolest guy in here. Again most these kids have no idea who that is:cheers:

 

[Norm Peterson]

Good idea, never thought of that, but then again, I never thought about bypassing the safety switch.

Most people today probably wouldn't. And I have a somewhat unique collection of experiences with this particular thing that dates back to somewhere in the early to mid 1950's.

Most informative was in the 1979 Malibu I had, where the mechanical pushrod got loose somehow and neatly speared the little switch, essentially destroying it in the 'open' position. More recently, if I could ever explain the frustration with having to hold a clutch pedal down hard enough to deflect the floor . . . well, I'll just let you figure the rest of it out.


jwhite - it is, and I wouldn't know what to use for a username otherwise. It's even got me a couple of free drafts at a certain downstairs bar in Boston.


Norm

 

[wilkinda65]

These kids these days have no clue what it was to ride in work or personal vehicles on a 5 gallon bucket for a seat, no seat belts, tires you found at the salvage yard cause that's all we could afford!!! Lol I'd venture to say prob most guys " kids "in here have no clue even what a 3 on the tree is, and I'd be great watching them trying to figure out how to drive one!! Lol
And if your real name is Norm Peterson, you could be the coolest guy in here. Again most these kids have no idea who that is:cheers:

My '72 Torino was a 3 speed on the column :cheers:

 

[doulos4jc]

You could wire in a remote toggle similar to my kill switch...position 1: normal operation. Position 2: clutch relay switch "made", car will start.

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