<div dir="auto"><div>Good point!! Is this a column shift? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm betting the first thing that happens when the engine quits is the gear shifter gets moved. (Into neutral or park, if stopped; into neutral to coast off the road if it happens while driving...) Moving the shifter could be changing whether spark is being called for.</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">________________<br>Sent from my phone <br>Best Regards,<br>Al Fuller</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 20, 2026, 11:15 AM <a href="mailto:watsonm05@comcast.net">watsonm05@comcast.net</a> <<a href="mailto:watsonm05@comcast.net">watsonm05@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Well, I've seen a lot of good suggestions but there's one part of the problem description that hasn't been addressed:</div>
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What if the digital dash is opening the neutral safety switch when it shouldn't?</div>
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My wild a** guess of a suggestion for whatever it's worth (maybe exactly what you paid for it - $0.00 ;-) )</div>
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<b>From:</b> Shop-talk <<a href="mailto:shop-talk-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">shop-talk-bounces@autox.team.net</a>> on behalf of Mark Andy <<a href="mailto:marka@maracing.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">marka@maracing.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 20, 2026 1:39 PM<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr">I had a similar thing a long time ago with a more modern car... '99 Camaro. That did turn out to be grounding related (specifically, the grounds between the engine block and the chassis).<br>
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But in my case the car almost never ran right, vs. it only occasionally having a problem. Not to say that you couldn't be on a similar path of course. Given that its fairly easy, I would definitely just run a completely new / separate grounding wire from
the engine to the chassis. Maybe even one to the frame and one to whatever sheet metal your ignition stuff is mounted on / getting its ground from?<br>
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I also wouldn't rule out the new harness if everything else checks out either though. You wouldn't be the first person to have a brand new thing have an issue. I assume you've carefully inspected all related connectors for a pin that's not fully seated, etc.
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Good luck! With my Camaro after dicking with it for a year or so, I took it to a very well respected mechanic with instructions to either fix it or burn it. At that point I didn't care which way it went. :)<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr">On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 1:37 AM Pat Horne <<a href="mailto:patintexas@icloud.com" id="m_-5355120802733893972OWA077b30f1-7d15-c8e7-ffd5-2bdb07f917eb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">patintexas@icloud.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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