[s-cars] ignition switch r&4: need help

[Konstantine Bogach]

  I gave up.  Switch will hang on wires, but new now.  :(

On 10/10/2010 06:30 PM, Konstantine Bogach wrote:
>  It seems to me the switch does not mate with lock properly.  Whatever 
> I did I could not make the switch follow the key:  I turn ignition on, 
> but can not turn it off.  Seems like lock's tong, or whatever it is 
> which goes the switch's slot, bites it to turn ignition on but in 
> opposite direction it is not able to rotate the switch.  I reached the 
> dark side of the lock and I am afraid something wrong there.   The 
> tong is not just flat tab but feels like a complex shape.  It also 
> feels like  there are 2 rotating  parts and  they move not uniformly.  
> Anyone has a car with stripped dash panel to make a picture of the 
> lock from inside?   How to remove the lock?  I did not find in Bentley 
> anything about switch/lock replacement procedure (I looked in ignition 
> section and the index)
>
> Konstantine
>
> On 10/10/2010 05:11 PM, Konstantine Bogach wrote:
>>  Hi,  I am putting in a  new ignition switch into my 200tq '89 and 
>> there is a problem:  ingnition is on but started does not engage (no 
>> click either).  Switch is new, works (it was hanging under steering 
>> column for a few days), but when I put it into housing - no starter.  
>> I pushed it into the housing as much as I could, the screw looks like 
>> in the groove.    Do I need to wiggle the key to let the switch fully 
>> engage with that tong in the lock?
>>
>> Thank you
>> Konstantine
>