auto to manual swap, wiring harness swap, car won't start

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maxima278
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ok here's the deal: auto trans car with manual trans, engine, and wiring harness. the harness runs from the ecu on the right of the car all the way around to the drivers side into the fuse box and on up into the ignition switch. the car is not equipped with the wires that tell the car to start when the clutch is mashed in, therefore it won't start. (that's my theory anyway) there has to be some wires somewhere that I can jumper or something to get this thing to start how can I fool this car into thinking the clutch pedal is mashed??


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Get an FSM, locate clutch position sensor.

Jump circuit = running Maxima 5-Speed

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oh by the way I'm talking about a 240. sorry for the mixup

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Same story.

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I'm sorry, what is an FSM?

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Factory service manual.....

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ok this is chris james's cousin... he had to install a 5pd wiring harness because the auto was burned up! i need to know on the 5 spd harness where do the wires to the clutch switch go... to the ecu or to the starter? we want to splice it and bypass the switch but i need to know where the wires go to. does that make sense? and what color are they? the ones on the back of the plug are solid green one with a black stripe one with a white stripe. where do these two wires go???

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zerothread?id=88899

this should help you out. i had a problem with the wiring harness not matching up quite right.there were three plugs on the fender and one didnt plug in i had to cut the connector off of the automatic harness to make it work.

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I finally got it running, but I have yet to check and see what works and does not. Did everything work on yours?


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