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Old 02-10-2011, 05:55 PM
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so I went out to the ole XJ a few minutes ago and the ignition cylinder jammed, nothing I did could budge it and it ended up breaking, whats the easiest way to go about getting it to start? I have to get to work in the morning and its all I got right now, tomorrow at work I can replace the whole thing but Im in a pinch at the moment... 1990 cherokee limited, 4.0 auto
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remove ignition lock use screw driver
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How would I go about doing that? In the midst of this thing taking a **** on me I got angry and broke some more stuff off of it but its still not budging despite anything I threw at it.
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the steerin whell has to be removed and then the lock can be even if you were to hot wire it you have to get the steering wheel unlocked
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The steering wheel is unlocked and has free motion, the ignition itself wont move at all tho
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http://www.xjtalk.com/showthread.php?t=2977
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take a scerw driver and pry under the chrome part of the ignition see if you can pop the guts , or do what this link show its should be the same coloum you have just a different steering wheel set up you use a gm key correcthttp://www.keybitslockandkey.com/los.../gm/gmlock.htm
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this is the best i can do to show you your steering wheel and horn button set up off this should be the same goo
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