some fool put the vats lock cylinder under my dash wired into a new lock cylinder and my car itermittenly doesnt start. can i just put a resistor between the two yellow wires going to the vats lock cylinder under my dash and connect them?

 

Let me see if I get this straight, correct me if I'm wrong here. You have a VATS lock cylinder wired in under the dash, and you have a lock cylinder in the steering column. Kind of sounds like my car, the previous owner had took a VATS lock cylinder and put an uncut key in it. He then connected it to the harness, rolled it up, wrapped it in about a roll of cheap electrical tape and crammed it up in the dash. He then put a regualr lock cylinder in the steering column because he was either too lazy or too stupid (possibly both) to correctly install it.

 

thats exactly the same but mine is wrapped in a shop towel. do u know how to bypass it? only the two yellow wires are connected to it now. can i just cut the lock cylinder off and splice in a potentiometer?

 

Measure the resistance of the key in the vats lock cylinder under the dash and solder a resistor of the same value between the wires.

 

Hey grndmasnightmar,

I just remembered, I sent you some info on this back in october. Is the connector still on both the cylinder and VATS control module wires? And I guess from your response that you have a standard lock cylinder in the steering column. You've just got to love some of these methods. Do you still have the info I sent you?

 

just a suggestion, instead of jerry rigging it, how bout since u have the cylinder already, install it the correct way?

 

well trickster i have most of the info on how to do it thanks, and also i dont want to get involved with putting the vats cylinder back in. i think the easiest would just be to jump it with a resistor i already have 2 kill switches for security. and one more thing, should i just sotter together a few resistors to get a perfect resistance or will that be prone to failer during extreme weather?

thanks guys