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  • YellowRose
    Super-Experienced


    • Jan 21 2008
    • 17188

    #16
    Why you need a new detent plate for your 61-63 T-Bird

    Hi Joe,

    Our Co-Founder, Alexander Sosiak, passed on at age 50 a couple of years ago due to cancer. Since then, his sister, Marianne, has taken over the Detent Plate program, retaining his email address . So she should have received that PM. However, if she does not have her settings set to receive notification of a PM on the Forum, she will not know it. I will send her an email alerting her. Here is her email address also, so that you and others who might have questions regarding Detent Plates, can contact her directly. This information is posted else where on the Forum, but you would have to dig for it.

    Marianne - 59tbird@prodigy.net

    Ray Clark - Squarebirds Administrator
    The Terminator..... VTCI #11178 ITC #6000 Yellow Mustang Registry (YMR) #12188
    Contact me via Private Message for my email address, or Call (Cell) 210-875-1411

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    • fordraised
      Newbie
      • Nov 27 2010
      • 20

      #17
      Thanks

      Thanks Ray. I sent Marianne ans e-mail, could you check your PM.

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      • scumdog
        Super-Experienced

        • May 12 2006
        • 1528

        #18
        Has anybody a picture of a worn detent plate they could post on here?

        Mine was so hard that I couldn't mark it with a file so I'm surprised they wear at all!

        The shift-lever end is another matter....it's lots softer and wears...
        A Thunderbirder from the Land of the Long White Cloud.

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        • YellowRose
          Super-Experienced


          • Jan 21 2008
          • 17188

          #19
          Why you need a new detent plate for your 61-63 T-Bird

          This is a picture of a Squarebird detent plate that is worn. Mine. It is not entirely in focus, but you should be able to see the various worn areas on it. You can see where it was worn across the bar that goes to the parking slot. Also along the open bottom section on the left and right tips.
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          Ray Clark - Squarebirds Administrator
          The Terminator..... VTCI #11178 ITC #6000 Yellow Mustang Registry (YMR) #12188
          Contact me via Private Message for my email address, or Call (Cell) 210-875-1411

          https://www.squarebirds.org/picture_gallery/TechnicalResourceLibrary/trl.htm
          Faye's Ovarian Cancer Memorial Website.
          https://faye.rayclark.info/index.html

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          • MarkusNY
            Newbie
            • Apr 8 2012
            • 1

            #20
            Can detent plate cause starter cut-off?

            Have a 1963 T-Bird and even though the shifter is a bit "loose", it doesn't slip out of position at all. What it does do, is it is preventing the car from starting unless you hand-hold the shifter in a specific position - too far up or down, the car won't crank.

            Is a worn detent plate to blame for this? Would replacing it solve the problem? If not, is there a way I can bypass this cutoff switch on the shifter so that I don't need to hold the shifter in position to start the car?

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