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Old 09-18-2025, 04:07 PM
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Can anyone with a 1969 Firebird factory equipped TH400 tell me where the location of the kick-down switch is located.
The "A-bodies" were using a gas-pedal-bracket mounted switch starting in '68. Really-slick system, and once the switch was initialized, self-adjusting by whacking the gas pedal to the floor. The problem being that folks don't initialize the switch, and therefore the self-adjusting part doesn't work right. Then they wrap rubber hose around the thing to make it activate sooner.

But I don't know about the F-bodies.

Again, I'd expect that to be in the service manual.

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In addition to rotating part of the column in the car to lock from starting, does the linkage also control reverse lights?
I was gonna say that the switch would be with the shifter assembly...but your posted illustration shows no switch there. So I guess it does activate the backup lights via the column.