Random question about clutch

[derf]

I was working on getting my MJ running.  I figured out that I don't have a clutch safety switch in the ignition circuit.  So I can hit the starter with it in gear.  I've driven a few vehicles that didn't have one at all before so I know it's not always installed.

 

Should there be one on my 87?  Or did a previous owner just cut out the circuit and bypass it?

[Big Dan]

There isn't one

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[derf]

Good to know.  Thanks.

[jdog]

You can install one of you want it, I just find I press the clutch out of habit

[derf]

5 minutes ago, jdog said:

You can install one of you want it, I just find I press the clutch out of habit

I'm doing an AW4 swap anyway so it's a bit of a moot point.  I was just curious.

 

I learned to drive a stick shift in an 88 Yugo.  I almost launched the thing into the side of a building because it also did not have the clutch switch.  I've never done that since.

[MiNi Beast]

i disconnect nss so as to ease in popping the clutch to get it running. even with my auto now i have it so i can slap the gearshift like a manual. it just feels cool. 

[rokinn]

Clutch safety switches are just a little surprise for me when I haven't pushed the clutch in far enough.  Learned to drive in a 1948 International Harvester K5 series (same year I was born) with non-syncro trans and straight pipe, double clutching through every gear.  Still sorta drive that way.  In college I drove the same non-syncro vehicle, only now a school bus.  Pretty sure it had a muffler though. 

 

[mjeff87]

I bypass them on every vehicle I own.  My TJ was the easiest, all you had to do was put a 5A fuse in the "trans" spot in the fuseblock (for use with autos).  On the Focus, it's actually a plunger switch on the pedal arm.  Had to pop the wiring harness off and install a jumper wire between the pins.

 

Some people like them, I absolutely can't stand them.

 

 

[89 MJ]

I wouldn't install one in my truck. If anything happened and the clutch went out, you could at least move the truck with the starter. Not the best idea, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

[JustEmptyEveryPocket]

5 hours ago, 89 MJ said:

move the truck with the starter

Been there, done that. Slave blew and I REALLY didn't want to drop the transmission on the gravel. So I pulled the CPS, put it in gear and crank-moved it 10 yards to the shop.

[amsuco]

On 10/21/2020 at 2:02 PM, derf said:

I learned to drive a stick shift in an 88 Yugo.  I almost launched the thing into the side of a building because it also did not have the clutch switch.  I've never done that since.

Yugo's were also know to have starter issues.  But they could be coaxed into working by popping the hood and tapping on the starter.  So you could at least in theory be distracted because you are running late, have the hood propped open, alternately tapping on the starter and then running around the car to reach in through the drivers side window to turn the ignition key, and if you had forgotten that it was in gear, eventually launch it across the parking lot while you were running after it in hot pursuit.  (Not that such a thing EVER happened to me...I'm just sayin' that it's possible.)