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69 Imperial Won't Crank Over

Yes if it turns out you can bypass the nss and get the Imp to start just remember it will start in any gear at that point.

Yes, this is probably what it is, my shift linkage out of adjustment. Since I had this car I do remember it not wanting to start a few times once in a great while in park. I would move the shifter a few times and it would start. I guess it finaley has gotten so out of adjustment that it will not start now. But, not going to say this is definitely it till I test the circuit.
If this is the problem, what is best way to adjust the adjust the shift linkage as I never did this. I guess look at it and see what can be adjusted?
 
Quick and dirty...pull that yellow wire off the starter relay. Make a ground wire, hook it where the yellow wire goes on the relay...the other end straight to ground, just somewhere on the firewall. All under the hood stuff.
If the car will start...tells you the problem is NSS itself, it's adjustment, or that yellow wire.
Wouldn't it be the wire coming from the trans, (NSS), normally brown, that you would ground?

The yellow comes from the ignition switch, through the bulkhead, to the relay. It reads battery voltage when the key is held in the start position only.

The three prong neutral safty switch at the trans. has 12 volt, ground, and backup lights. The ground is the center prong.
 
If this is the problem, what is best way to adjust the adjust the shift linkage as I never did this. I guess look at it and see what can be adjusted?
If the switch is bad, replacing it may be all you have to do.
 
Wouldn't it be the wire coming from the trans, (NSS), normally brown, that you would ground?

The yellow comes from the ignition switch, through the bulkhead, to the relay. It reads battery voltage when the key is held in the start position only.

The three prong neutral safty switch at the trans. has 12 volt, ground, and backup lights. The ground is the center prong.


Yes, your correct on this wiring. Another member somewhere else on another board said to ground the yellow prong. But another member also said if I take 12 volts and can touch it to the male terminal ( the wire that comes from the transmission) and make the starter kick in then the neutral safety switch is good.
 
The wire from the trans, NSS, is a ground to complete the circuit for the relay to activate. I wouldn't energize that terminal.
 
I'll get one for you. It's not pretty right now.

Wizard
I'm partial to the 69 imperial, I paid 250 bucks for a 38,000 mile 69 2 door imperial lebaron hardtop in 1989 complete with fender skirts. I miss that ride. Maybe you ended up with it lol
 
I'm partial to the 69 imperial, I paid 250 bucks for a 38,000 mile 69 2 door imperial lebaron hardtop in 1989 complete with fender skirts. I miss that ride. Maybe you ended up with it lol

Bought mine about 12 years ago from a guy in Detroit. It was original lima been green, but someone painted it torquise. Its a 2 dr.
 
Wouldn't it be the wire coming from the trans, (NSS), normally brown, that you would ground?
Yeah...my bad...still working on coffee.

On that shift linkage, you might run across worn bushings, that affects the adjustment. If you have a book on the car, should show the various shifter linkage parts, including where you adjust it.
 
Bought mine about 12 years ago from a guy in Detroit. It was original lima been green, but someone painted it torquise. Its a 2 dr.
Mine was a sand color with a white top out of Colorado. I read somewhere the 2 door production was right about 2200 units for 1969
 
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