[Shotimes] ATX Park release button wont release (you got it)

[Jef & Laura Denning]

You all are geniuses --  Appears to be the brake light switch is the
culprit as various of the tricks offered in replies worked.

Many thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Hartberger, Jason M.
AT3 (AW)
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 8:44 PM
To: 'Kevin & Cheryl Airth'; SHOtimes mailing list (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] ATX Park release button wont release

Well I thought that might have been the case too until I got down under
there and saw little wire pieces dangling from the switch. the wire
connector was still in the switch, but the wire had parted. 25 minutes
in
the middle of an intersection (scary!) with my door open and my little
dremel with the power inverter and a drill bit and some wire stripper
and
some spare 12ga wire (my trunk is a rolling repair shop) and I had it
all
fixed, took the switch apart and drilled holes in the mounting spades
themselves and basically bypassed the switch. It sounds a lot more
complicated than it is, but it works just like before and it works
perfectly. I *am* an electronics technician, what good would I be if
such a
little thing like a brake switch stopped me? :P

Jason


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin & Cheryl Airth [mailto:clubairth@peoplepc.com]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 2:17 PM
To: Hartberger, Jason M. AT3 (AW); SHOtimes mailing list (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] ATX Park release button wont release


Jason:
 Be careful because on the ATX the cruise control disconnect switch will
also cause the same problem. If stepping on the brakes harder and harder
seems to help this would point to the CC disconnect. It tends to leak
sometimes too. It's mounted on the bottom of the brake M/C and most Ford
dealers will tell you it does not exist.
..
..

>
> I can attest to this one. Check the Brake On Off (boo) switch on your
brake
> pedal, it's white and has two wires going out of it, connected to a
rod
> going toward the firewall. My ATX did exactly the same thing to me,
and it
> turned out to be that switch. It controls not only the brake lights
going
> on/off, but it controls the park interlock switch too. If the switch
breaks
> (or the wiring breaks off, in my case), it won't work any more. Try
this:
> put the key in one of the other positions other than "on" (I can't
remember
> which one it is, I think "acc" or "off"?) and try putting it out of
park.
If
> it works then, it's your BOO switch. If it doesn't, then yeah, it's in
the
> shifter knob itself, and you gotta take the whole console off to
change
it.
> Hope it's the brake switch.
>
> Jason
>
>

>
> Suddenly, the release button on my ATX shifter won't release and I'm
> stuck in park:  the button does not go all the way in.  So far I've
been
> able to fool with it (a lot) and get it released.  (Here's one for the
> Karma book, it happened the first time on the day I decided to sell
the
> car -- after 108K miles!).  I've had trouble searching the archives,
but
> did find a post on removing the shifter knob.  Is that likely the fix?
> Is it possible that the problem is a loose connection etc. under the
> console?
>
> TIA
>
> 93 ATX, 108k mi (basically original owner).
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