Re: '56 Patrician wont go into drive!

Posted by Mr.Pushbutton  On 2008/4/8 22:45:56

Yes, you could take a momentary double pole switch (center off), feed power to the center terminal and hook a wire from the two "out" terminals to terminals 4 and 6 of the trans shift relay on the inner fender IF (and a big if it is!) the motor has not overtraveled and jammed itself to one side. There is too much torque in most instances required to break it free, the motor tries but can't do it. You would have to "goose" the switch and go by feel. Were this the case I would want this diagram handy so that you know the order of operations thruout the travel of the segment gear driving the input shaft of the trans. If you hook this up and it works you would have to be extra careful not to over travel to the extreme ends.

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