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Neutral safety switch needs replace or is misadjusted?

Neutral Safety and Backup Lamp Switch

1. Place transmission shaft in "NEUTRAL" position.
2. Align flats in switch insert with flats on transmission shaft and push switch over shaft.
3. Loosely assemble bolts to transmission case.
4. Insert 2.34 diameter gage pin (or rounded shank end of a 3/32 inch drill bit) into service adjustment hole. (Reset Hole in image below.) Rotate the switch until the gage pin drops to a depth of 9mm.
5. Tighten attaching bolts to recommended torque.
6. Remove gage pin.

(Source above: 88 Service manual, page 7A1-9)

RWDPLZ said in in this thread: I used the exact size drill bit, put it in the slot, and used a piece of tape to be able to tell when it was in all the way on the new switch.