Re: 94 Dak, Can't turn key

From: Chris Reck (Roadkill47@attbi.com)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 14:38:44 EST


I had the same thing happen on mine.

I ended up doing two things that caused this. The first was having the
steering wheel locked. The second was that the gear shift lever was not all
the way in park. Put the brake on and move your lever to make sure there
isn't any slippage.

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Chris Reck
Chicagoland, IL

'99 Dakota Sport + CC 4x4 V6 (Deep Amethyst) Autolite 3923, Custom K&N 6x9 air intake, Rancho RSX shocks (4), Pioneer full audio system, BF Goodrich 32x11.5r15 T/A KO tires

""David Henry"" <DML@HenryWeb.net> wrote in message news:000701c29cd8$af206500$1d02a8c0@HENRY... > > Arghh!!! > > I've finally got the Dak running again and it's been fine for the last > couple months. Thanks to all the suggustions. The problem went away after > I re-did any underhood splice I could find and replaced the last couple feet > of wire running to the coil. > > I've got the plow back out of storage and everything works. It's starting > to snow again, and I can't get the key to turn in the ignition. Can't move > it either forward or back. I tried both my OEM keys with the same result > and no difference. I'm about to start digging through the FSM, but does > anyone have any ideas? At this rate I'm never going to find out if BFG MT's > work in the snow or not. Oh yeah, the stearing wheel isn't locked either, > I can still wiggle a little bit each way. > > David Henry > 94 CC Sport 4x4, 318 5spd, Lifted 33" BFG MT (Starting to snow in Detroit, > MI) >



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