Need a Key, or way to crack a lock fast!

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I bet I got your attention huh!

Actually I do, but not what you think!
I have about a 84 firebird I lost the ignition key for. It's a beat up car with a great engine I bought for parts. Tranny is bad. Anyway I want to move the car! If I had the key it would start and run great and the tranny works long as I don't go over 20mph so I can drive it across the yard. But without a key the steering is locked, so I can't even drag it now.

I could get it running fine without the key, but still the steering would still be locked! I live in the middle of nowhere, 15 miles to the nearest little town.

So any idea's how to get the switch out without busting anything? I will most likely fix this car or keep some stuff and sell the rest for parts, so I don't want to bust up anything!

If I could find the key it would be easy to take out the switch of course, but then I would not need too

Catchey title huh?

Oh yea, the fast part means in days, not minutes! I got plenty of time, but would like to move it this weekend!

Thanks!

[housepig]

if you're willing to replace the key switch, get a fat screwdriver, jam it in there and turn.

my neighbor had a former tenant abandon a car in his driveway, that's how we got it to steer to get it out on the street. (then we stripped the plates off of it.... it was towed a few days later.)

don't know enough about cars to know if it will work for yours, but it certainly did the trick on this one (late 80's Toyota, IIRC)

[Hatz]

Ahhhhh a fellow F-Body owner huh.

94 Camaro here.

Although you have a firebird and not a camaro, they are both F-bodies and both came out of St. Therese, Canada.

The best advice for me to give you would be to go to www.camaroz28.com

Go to the forums and do a search. If nothing comes up, post really quick. These guys are brilliant when it comes to Camaros and Firebirds. They have a forum for all generations so this shouldnt be a problem. Alot of the members probably have the same car you do. Good Luck and let us know how it goes.

Hatz

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Thanks

I'll check out the link.
Yea I don't mind if I needed to replace the key cyclinder, or just leave it out (parts car really) just don't want to break the column. It's good.
Otherwise I could just yank it out with my dent puller, but last car I did that too broke the housing for the switch.

I have alot of cars sitting here, I seldom get rid of any, just get another and park the one I was driving. And I buy clunckers too if it's something I want for parts. Normally I never lose a key, but some how I lost 3 this year!
I've got 3 mercuries for parts for my 84, 85 T-birds and an 87 Couger. Mechaniclly the same, bodies different. All same engines!