I think that the switch supplies ground, and I am fairly confident that by vrtue of connecting the wire to ground I would have accomplished the same thing had I jumped the two wires. My basic problem is the car will not start now, and I have some suspicion that it has someting to do with the idle speed circuit what could it be? Thanks joe Palatinus VIN 17167 6808 >> > Sounds to me like you gave the switch a good ground - ie the switch wasn't > the > problem, but the ground connection