01-27-2016, 01:55 PM
space-time wrote:
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1956113
I did some more testing, and most of the time the car starts just fine, or if there is a delay (it only happened two times since Friday), it seems that the car starts when I am about to give up and release the clutch pedal. There is a switch (interlock?) so car won't start unless you press the clutch. At this time more testing is required, but so far it seems like that switch does not make contact if I press the clutch all the way down, but if I let it go up, just a millimeter or two, the car starts. I am starting to suspect a bad clutch switch. I am not sure if this is easier or more difficult to fix than a bad starter.
The only fix here is to add the special starting technique to the list of instructions for others on how to make your old quirky car go. I just remembered I put a switch in one of my Hondas (one of those illuminated toggles from Radio Schlock) to turn the radiator fan on and off-- always fun explaining that when I lent the car. Are you old enough to remember manual chokes?