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Anyone know what the starter interrupt pigtail looks like for an SM465?

Leadfoot

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I bought a pedal assembly to do a manual swap. The reverse lights are easy (extend green wires down to switch on SM465), but I want the starter interrupt on the clutch pedal. I know the purple wires on the column (original auto) are the ones to use, but what does the plug look like to hook into the clutch pedal switch?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Clutch-Pedal-Position-Switch-AIRTEX-1S5100-/261597172359

It looks like a different config from the auto column plug (or is it just me)?

Anyone have one they want to sell?
 
Don't think I will be much help- maybe this weekend I can see if I can get a picture of the one in my blazer.

You sure you want the starter interrupt? That's what makes it so that the starter won't function without having the clutch pedal fully depressed right?

Being able to use the starter to move the truck in an emergency is one of the things I love most about having the manual trans- can't do that with an auto as far as I know. once i ran out of gas on a busy street and put the blazer in low range, 2nd gear, and pulled out of the street and into a driveway of a shopping center. Have also done that on the trail a few times - fuel pump crapped out and I bumped the truck over the crest of a hill I was on- able to coast down the other side to a place a friend could tow me from...

I have an 1988 k5 with the sm465 - and actually installed a switch that bypasses the interrupt. Most of the time when I'm driving it, the truck would start in gear of you tried... But I have the option of throwing the switch if a newbie were to jump in my truck for a joy ride, and If I was worried about it for some reason. If my truck didn't already have the switch on the clutch pedal I personally would never want to add one.
 
If it were a beater or maybe even daily driver I wouldn't worry about it, but it's going to be in a pulling truck that requires the starter interrupt for safety (no way around it).

Sweet K30 you have a PM.
 
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