Disable vw autostick neutral safety switch

[alsehendo34]

I want to start it in gear--clutch is definatly stuck--the vacume canister lever is fully activating.

How dose the neutral safty switch keep the starter from working and were is it?
I want to start the car in gear and get on and of the gas to see if the clutch will break loose.
Any problem with this plan in order to try and avoid major surjery.

[volkenstein]

Alsehendo34,
                  The switch only permits the feed to the starter to be hot when the gearbox is in neutral.

Who knows why VW chose to run the gearstick/CV solenoid wire through it as well!

The switch is three prong and is up on the drivers side (LHD car) of the gearbox nosecone. Grab some heavy wire, two male 1/4 spades and make a short jump wire. Pull the plug, bridge the red/black and red wires and you then should be able to start in gear.

Pull the battery leads off before you start, handbrake firmly on and no revving the car to warm it up. I'm even a bit leery of starting cars on stands, but that is just me! Safety first!

One or two of the posts has some good ideas to free up a stuck clutch, can't remember which ones sorry.


Regards
Volkenstein

[68AutoBug]

Hi,
When I finally got My beetle finished and able to drive it, I drove around town and then parked the car out the front of the house.
Later on I decided to put it in the carport,
Well... I forgot about the neutral switch :idea:  :oops:  :oops:
and the car wouldn't start...
so I used the VW jack to jack the RHS of the car up, and I climbed under the car , and started the engine with a jumper lead onto the starter motor
I had also screwed the idle screw in a bit so the engine would keep going..
so the engine started first go...
and I couldn't work out why the rear wheel off the ground was turning and the car was trying to move, and the base of the jack was digging into the [fresh-new] bitumen...
It was even worse when i let the jack down...
even though the parking brake was on....
the car was trying to go....
I then found the car was in Low gear....

I was very lucky not to be run over by My own car...
or crushed under it....

and as Volkenstein said, I don't know why VW wired the neutral plug that way.. but when I rewired My beetle, I did follow the VW wiring diagram..
so mine is wired the same way.....

cheers

Lee Noonan   - 68Autobug - Australia -

http://community.webshots.com/user/vw68autobug