RE: Neutral Safety Switch

["Gary H." <62to65mopar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mopars *are* fun Dan. :) 

I dug around and, amazingly, found the original mail that was posted 
here a while back. I'll paste it below. :) 

Apparently even though the 1966 trans used a single pole neutral safety 
switch internally the Torqueflight was redesigned.

Wally Breer, the fellow who posted it, is no longer subscribed here but 
he's a very knowledgeable Mopar dude. 

Thanks,
Gary H.   

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Hi
       The new style switch won't work on a 62 to 65 Torqueflite , a 
fellow I know tried it and then called me to ask why his pushbutton 
shift selector wouldn't work correctly. I found that the tang on the 
manual lever on the valve body will strike the body of the new switch as 
it penetrates too far into the case preventing full movement of the 
manual lever. The switch body was revised in '66 (despite the fact that 
its still a single pin) when Chrysler redesigned the shift mechanism, so 
the three prong switch might work in post '66 applications. The centre 
pin is for the neutral start
(ground in neutral and park) and the two outer pins are for the backup
lights ( closes in reverse).

Regards
Wally 
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mcwheels@ wrote:
> 
> Hmmm! I don't know Susan, now Gary is saying that the 3 prong switch 
> wont work on our trannys. I know for sure the A-100 guys are using them 
> without a problem. Even though the A-100's were shifted by a lever on 
> the dash the 64's and 65's used the same style trannys (with a shorter 
> tailshaft) as the pusbutton tranny with the shifting done by 2 cables so 
> 
> I don't see what the difference would be. Here's the link to the A-100 
> Yahoo group but to read the messages you'd have to join the group so I 
> just cut and pasted the original question and a couple of responses for 
> you. You'll note that the first response refers to a 66 tranny which was 
> 
> no longer cable shifted but I had a 66 Charger and a 66 Belvedere and 
> both those cars originally used the single post switch. The backup 
> lights were still in the shifters not the tranny. Dan
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