Well I'm currently stuck litteraly went to crank up my car and my key wouldn't go into the ignition. So I sprayed some wd40 into the ignition.....now my key goes in but my car won't start. I don't get a security light or Anything my radio turns on but that's it.

 

try a spare key if u have one, what year is the car

 

do u mean the key cylinder wont turn forward? does the engine crank?

 

Yea the key turns foward like its goin to crank and does nothing. I don't have a spare key the car is a 91 camaro

 

Keep in mind that it could also be a dead/low battery, neutral safety switch out of whack, starter/solenoid(hit on it), or maybe vats.

You can wire two wires together on the vats starter enable relay behind the driver side kick panel, on mine its Pin A ( DK GRN/WHT) and wire from Pin E (YEL) 1st and 5th wires. But mines an 89, your wire colors could be different. I cut, stripped, and used a twist cap. If that gets you engine cranking its probably vats and u can go from there on disabling it completely(custom chip and resistor mod).

http://www.vatssucks.com/

-Shane

 

Also try disconnecting the NEG battery cable for like 5 mins and then try starting, that worked on mine before when i had a ecm problem.

 

I just took the key cylinder off (the black outer piece) and noticed (i think) I lost a piece of metal that touches the resistor on the key.... Would that cause the problem.

 

I'm not sure on the internals of the cylinder, but if a piece is missing that tells the vats the key resistance, common sense would point to yes, if vats doesnt feel the right resistance, it wont crank. So buy a new cylinder and key with the correct vats number(i think there are 16 possibilities, dont know off the top of my head) you have to check with a voltmeter touchin both sides of the chip in your key, set on ohms and then use a chart on here(search for it or google) that tells u which vats number to use OR
use that resistor number and buy resistors from radio shack(or pre made ones on ebay) and stick in the vats wire,(research here on how and watch youtube videos) i lucked out with one resistor, you may have to connect a bunch to get the proper resistance within your chart range(5%?).

if you do that and piggyback the vats wire under the dash, cut the wire coming from the cylinder because if the key is touching a little bit it would add to much resistance, research FIRST, you got this.

 

Ok with the vats deleat with the resistor I saw you add the resistor to the wire but what wire is it? Anyone have a good write up for it? Ima have to do it tomorrow.....

 

tons, just use search, i barley tried and found this one, bro

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/elec...ats.html:lmao:
....and the site i mentioned in one of my first posts...

 

Weird thing is my security lights not coming on even with the key sensor checker thing out the ignition.... So with the resistor hooked up it shouldn't matter right?

 

Btw thanks for all the help!

 

when my vats went ape s*** i never had my light come on, it could be burnt out or if the vats malfunctions it might not come on.
NP i need alot of help too with stuff, sometimes it can be hard to get a reply, so i try to help when i can for all the past posts i read that help me day to day with these complicated cars ;-)