Unusual Inertia Switch Malfunction

[shirazcupala@xxxx]

I had an interesting thing happen a few weeks ago that I'll share as 
FYI and ask for your advice on.

I drive my D every day. One morning I went to start it and it just 
wouldn't start. Kept turning over but never catching. After a day 
and a half of worrying but not really even moving the car, I finally 
remembered to check on the intertia switch. Well the plunger was 
down, BUT one of the wires was disconnected! When I reconnected the 
wire the car operated perfectly. Of course my switch is in the 
original location near the lambda counter.

So the moral is if your switch is in that location, be sure you can't 
accidentally disconnect the wires by kicking it or moving the floor 
mat accidentally. Also, if your car turns over but won't start and 
the plunger seems fine, double check the connection to the intertia 
switch.

Now for my question. If I pull up the plunger manually to try to trip 
it on purpose to test it, nothing happens. I mean the car will start 
or continues to run just fine. Given the above this is wierd to me. 
I assume this means that my intertia switch is busted, but I just 
wanted to check if this is the behavior that a busted one exhibits.

thanks,
shiraz