Neutral safety switch, 60 Adventurer

When we bought this car the neutral safety switch was not working. After the rebuild I found a starter solenoid from a later year Mopar, ( it looks like the one on my 68 Newport). In any case, the guys who rebuilt the trans claim the switch is working & the issue is the wiring. Is the wire from the switch supposed to ground at a terminal on the starter solenoid?

Could the issue be that I have the wrong solenoid on the car, is there a separate terminal for the neutral switch on the correct solenoid that belongs on the car?

Also where can I get the gauges repaired?

Thanks

Torry

Your starter solenoid should have two smaller wires connected to it as well as the heavy duty wires from battery to starter; one is from the ignition switch the other to the neutral switch on the trans, the latter wire breaks the earth to the starter solenoid if the trans is not in neutral.

You could test the function of the neutral switch by putting a test lamp between the wire from the solenoid and the neutral switch, with the ignition on and trans selector in neutral the light should illuminate, moving the trans selector into gear should make the light go out; obviously it would be wise to set the park brake/chock the wheels while doing this.

Sometimes its simply a matter of adjustment on the trans selector which could cause a fault, a workshop manual will tell you how to correctly set this up .