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" Q: I have a 1997 Ford Explorer and most of the time it doesn&amp;#039;t like to start unless I put it into neutral first. At the same time, it doesn&amp;#039;t like to stay still in park; I&amp;#039;m forced to find a parking space on a flat surface or one that allows me to rest my tires against a curb. Would these problems be related to each other and/or be easily fixed? A: Your shift linkage isn&amp;#039;t actually putting your car in Park. That&amp;#039;s why the parking pawl isn&amp;#039;t dropping and letting your car roll. Also, there&amp;#039;s an interlock to keep the engine from being started while the car is in gear. It&amp;#039;s working in Neutral, but not in Park, which is a further indication that the car isn&amp;#039;t really in Park. You&amp;#039;ll need to have the linkage either adjusted ore repaired. In the meantime, has it ever occurred to you to use the parking brake to keep the car stationary when Park isn&amp;#039;t working?  Q: My new car (Buick Enclave)has ATM Low Profile fuses. I would like to add a switched accessory, but cannot find an &amp;quot;add a fuse&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;20A Fuse tap&amp;quot; for these fuse panels. Finding a switched accessory wire to tap on to is impossible because of their location behind plastic panels and in wiring harnesses which are taped or enclosed. Are these fuses too new to find these items? A: Yeah, I haven&amp;#039;t found one yet either. But if you think about it, why bother? The fuse panel cover won&amp;#039;t fit over even a conventional high-profile ATM fuse, and probably wouldn&amp;#039;t over a low-profile fuse tap, either. So your option would be to cut the cover, leave it open, or tap into the harness someplace, regardless. Any empty fuse positions in that fuse panel? You could tap into that with a blade-style tap, the kind that is supposed to sneak past the fuse body. Just don&amp;#039;t use a fuse. I&amp;#039;ve even done this with a small spade connector crimped onto the wire from an inline fuse holder. Just stuff it into the empty fuse position. Sometimes you can find one that&amp;#039;s not in use, but still is hot. And there&amp;#039;s always the cigarette lighter. Just piggyback off the spade lug on the back of the socket. It&amp;#039;s already fused at 10 amps. Q: I&amp;#039;m doing research for a paper in college and I&amp;#039;ve heard that your magazine featured an article sometime between 1970 and 1980 on a carburetor design or modification that could yield 50-100 mpg. Is this true? A: Nope, It&amp;#039;s an urban legend: http://snopes.com/autos/business/carburetor.asp "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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