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It seems the safety mechasim is not working properly. All tailights are working properly so it seems that whatever part does it is going south because it does it on and off.
It is a solenoid? Anyone has the part number, price and diagram?
Some way to dissable it while I fix it?
Thanks in advance.

Define having trouble. Does the safety switch engage, but the shifter doesn't want to move? Or is it that you don't hear the click of the safety switch after pressing the brake three or four times?

You should be able to push the little red button thing to get the gear selector out of park if you're in a bind and the interlock system isn't working.

Manarius wrote:Define having trouble. Does the safety switch engage, but the shifter doesn't want to move? Or is it that you don't hear the click of the safety switch after pressing the brake three or four times?

Yes, the shifter doesn't want to move but I don't remember ever hearing the safety switch. If you mean the "click" that sounds when you start pressing
the brake then I will have to wait until my wife comes back from some errands.

Legacy777 wrote:You should be able to push the little red button thing to get the gear selector out of park if you're in a bind and the interlock system isn't working.

What red button do you mean? I looked for the override button and what I felt (I didn't look 'cause I checked it at night) was some kind of opening and what felt like a bolt in front of the shifter case.
Because I have to go shopping with wife tomorrow I'm looking for a temporary solution while I have more time to troubleshoot it plus next Saturday I'm going to change my Altima sparkplugs and clean the filter prior some stock dyno passes and the back plugs three are a pain to take out. I wish all engine compartments were so easy like the Legacy.

Ok, found in my manual that you have to pull out the to finisher and at the front left there is a lever to override it. It is permanently or just for the moment?

You just push the button to get the gear shifter out of park. After it's out of park, you can let go of the button.

ah, now, my 94 turbo wagon doesnt have an actual button. it had a rubber grommet cover, which you pry out, and then you have to stick a long screwdrirver down in to the bolt thing there, and then press down and shift to defeat the auto-lock safety shift.

not all the autotragics will have the actual button there. brent

Bheinen74 wrote:ah, now, my 94 turbo wagon doesnt have an actual button. it had a rubber grommet cover, which you pry out, and then you have to stick a long screwdrirver down in to the bolt thing there, and then press down and shift to defeat the auto-lock safety shift.

not all the autotragics will have the actual button there. brent

But will it defeat it permanently or you will have to do it every
time it get stuck?

every time it is stuck you will have to press it in.

check the 2 electrical connectors for the transmission, they are big square electrical plugs down by the firewall/transmission area, check those connectors, maybe one is corroded/shorted

If you remove the trim you can see the lever that that button pushes. You can ziptie this lever so as to permanently defeat the shift lock.

vrg3 wrote:If you remove the trim you can see the lever that that button pushes. You can ziptie this lever so as to permanently defeat the shift lock.

that is what i did on my 95.

first i tried using some wire.

but for some odd reason the car wouldnt start. so i switched to a zip tie and it started right up. that was the only thing i changed.

Maybe the wire was contacting the safety switch and shorting it?