Hotwiring your truck.

[tarheelsman71]

Not as easy as youtube makes it out to be. I need my old 77 chevy and I believe that I would be already going for now. Truth is, there is so much security stuff on my chevy silverado 2005 that I cant get it to work. I can get the engine to start, but the fuel pump stops putting out fuel so it dies. Because there is a wire harness, you dont have to cut any wires though. All you have to do is jumper the wire harness appropriately and you can get it to turn over. I just cant figure out how to make it run and stay running. Oh well. It was worth a try though. :(

Where is Jason Bourne when you need him?

[Matt In Oklahoma]

I'll PM you

[Lowdown3]

We had to do this on a car once, mind it was in the 80's, but we used a large head flat screwdriver to pop the cap off the lock cylinder (one of those little dealies with the ears), then you could see the lock cylinder that turned inside.

Their is a small space so the lock cylinder to turn. We ran a long wood screw in that space and it evidently started to grip the softer metal of the lock cylinder. Using a channel locks and a lot of "arse" we pulled the whole lock cylinder out of the column. The lock cylinder itself rested in the bottom in a little metal bar that when the key and the cylinder were turned, turned the little metal bar and started the car. A needle nose pliers then was used to turn the little bar and the car started up fine.

Not quick or elegant, but it got the job done.

Not that long ago I tried my set of jigglers on a late 90's vehicle we were fixing to sell. Going through the whole set of a dozen, none of them worked.

[tarheelsman71]

called dealership yesterday, and they said it is a pretty easy fix...for them. Too much electronic theft proof stuff on this one. Fuel pump cutoffs if the resistance is not the same or whatever. so the fix is to take a wire and another wire and put a resistor btwn them and it bypasses the passlock safety feature. Problem is they said black wire and yellow wire...I have neither coming out of the BCM. Looks like it is a tow to the dealership for an "easy" fix for them. And then onto Craigslist for a 70ish truck...