I thought I was gonna have to drill out the rivits, but it turned out that there were about 8 phillips head screws! The part goes for about $90 bucks, damn I was glad.

Recentley I was having trouble starting the car. At first I thought it was one of the alarms (the problem was very intermittent, when ever I cleaned something the problem went away for about a week), then I thought it was the starter relay. But then I saw the car could be started in neutral (for the inhibitor switch N is the same as P but its making contact in a different position). So then I tried adjusting the inhibitor, starting in park got better but it still happend a couple times. And then when driving the tranny would fall out of first gear and into neutral (that meant I went a little too far adjusting the switch, so I adjusted in the opposite direction, still did not function properly).

So I took it apart and there are three copper wippers that are sping loaded. If anyone takes it apart, open it slowly as to not loose one of the three springs or contacts. Inside there was a lot baked on grease which caused poor contact. I cleaned everything inside with alcohol, used new dielectric grease on everything, and reasembled it. She works like new now, jumps right into first, starts with no problem when in P, pretty cool huh . Enjoy

 

good writeup man... been having that prob on and off for the last couple years. I'll take look at it one of these days!