Re: '56 Patrician wont go into drive!

Posted by Mr.Pushbutton  On 2008/4/10 11:36:30

So it is sort-of working if it is hunting (a sort of dadda-dadda-dadda-dadda...........sound) but no shifting right?
You have neutral, you say. So you rotated the actuator and got it into neutral--you are going to have to re-align it after everything is fixed, just follow the procedure in the Autolite manual. The big trick is to get reverse on ht e actuator to equal reverse on the trans--once you have that you are either very close or you are there.
There is a red wire that runs from the pushbutton console on the steering column to the starting relay, basically a bussed connection that allows the starter to engage when the proper keys are pressed. There is a 12 ga. red wire that comes from the shift motor and attaches to the #2 terminal on the shift relay, if that were off the motor would turn in one direction and not the other.