it happened to me, I called AAA , the locksmith knew about the casting flaw, hammered it off, and he popped the ignition lock the usual way. No pictures, it was before cell phone... and before digital camerastigger4x wrote:Long story short the key has been broken in the ignition of my '74 J-10, non-tilt. Being an OTR driver family would move it for me to avoid city code enforcement issues re: street parking. I came home to a broken cylinder switch so now I have to replace it. I used the Search, but wasn't finding much and what I did find hadn't panned out. A number of the search results had pics once upon a time, but Photobucket has turned into Photo and you cant see them any more.
I googled some and came across a YouTube video, link below. I had read in one of the aforementioned search results that on many untouched columns there was some casting flash over the holes mentioned in the video so I knocked them open. I tried wiggling a narrow straight blade as was mentioned in the video, but the ignition switch won't budge. I haven't been able to locate the locking rod mentioned though.
Does anybody have any pics that can shed some light on this? TIA
YouTube link for reference ... [youtube]https://youtu.be/TkDnnkjif8c"]https://youtu.be/TkDnnkjif8c[/youtube]
I got the casting flash off no problem. I'm having trouble figuring out how the "usual way" is supposed to work.letank wrote: it happened to me, I called AAA , the locksmith knew about the casting flaw, hammered it off, and he popped the ignition lock the usual way. No pictures, it was before cell phone... and before digital cameras
IIRC you need to push inside the rectangular hole to free the ignition barrel from the steering column housing... need to look at the TSM for clear pict or schematictigger4x wrote:I got the casting flash off no problem. I'm having trouble figuring out how the "usual way" is supposed to work.letank wrote: it happened to me, I called AAA , the locksmith knew about the casting flaw, hammered it off, and he popped the ignition lock the usual way. No pictures, it was before cell phone... and before digital cameras
Mars wrote:One man's trans leak is another's penetrating oil
Supposedly these are basically identical to the GM columns, but from '73 - '78. I'll eyeball the '82 though for comparison. Thankstgreese wrote:I recall the '82 manual has a very detailed section on the steering column. They are all a standard GM locking column. There's most of an '82 manual at oljeep.com - I suggest you look there and see if it helps.
Yup, that's the place that was mentioned where the casting flash was. Knocked it out and other rectangular spot to the left of it.
tigger4x wrote:Yup, that's the place that was mentioned where the casting flash was. Knocked it out and other rectangular spot to the left of it.
The PITA I'm dealing with now . . .
Looking diagonally down to the right there is that square hole. There is a long rectangular plastic piece that has two electrical contacts facing the steering wheel. There is a thin slightly curved metal piece that was holding it in place. While I was holding it to get the long plastic piece out it sprung back into the column. Do you know what it's attached to? Or how to get the section of the column off that holds that the cylinder is in? I'm guessing I have to pull the entire column out to fish that piece out.
Mars wrote:One man's trans leak is another's penetrating oil