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oldcorollas Forums Junkie Location: Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan Registered: January 2003	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem? Thu, 02 October 2003 00:03 IRA11Y wrote on Thu, 02 October 2003 07:36 its most likely the ignition barrel (key) at the back of the key is the contact points for ignition, sometimes older cars get dry solder joints and fail, that is where id be looking soudns EXACTLY like that... when you turn to start, coil power comes off a different circuit (ie the starter circuit, and often has ballast resistor switched out.. if you have one). when you turn back to 'on' the coil power goes thru switch, to ballast res, to coil.. i',m guessing that either your switch is farked (you can test easily by jumpering from battery +ve to coil/ballast resistor +ve, and startign car. you'll have to take off the jumper to stop the car tho!!!! be careful!!! oh, or you could turn key to start and either put multimeter, or globe, from coil +ve to ground... if no voltage put test thing to the ballast resistor +ve. it's gonna either be dead ignition switch, or dead ballast resistor Cya, Stewart [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	gtman	Wed, 01 October 2003 12:41
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	V8_MA61	Wed, 01 October 2003 12:45
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	gtman	Wed, 01 October 2003 13:00
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	Mr DOHC	Wed, 01 October 2003 13:08
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	V8_MA61	Wed, 01 October 2003 13:06
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	gtman	Wed, 01 October 2003 13:11
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	boudan	Wed, 01 October 2003 14:29
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	gtman	Wed, 01 October 2003 16:04
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	IRA11Y	Wed, 01 October 2003 21:36
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	Mr DOHC	Wed, 01 October 2003 23:52
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	oldcorollas	Thu, 02 October 2003 00:03
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	Pumpkin	Thu, 02 October 2003 01:51
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	gtman	Thu, 02 October 2003 01:56
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	Jason	Thu, 02 October 2003 02:20
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	faulksy	Thu, 02 October 2003 05:33
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	gtman	Thu, 02 October 2003 02:41
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	coronamark2	Thu, 02 October 2003 05:40
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	fingers	Thu, 02 October 2003 05:41
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	crazedrt104	Thu, 02 October 2003 06:12
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	gtman	Thu, 02 October 2003 10:34
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	Jason	Thu, 02 October 2003 23:37
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	oldcorollas	Fri, 03 October 2003 00:15
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	crazedrt104	Fri, 03 October 2003 05:00
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	gtman	Sat, 04 October 2003 05:11
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	gtman	Thu, 23 October 2003 07:26
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	coronamark2	Thu, 23 October 2003 07:49
	Re: Car won't stay on, mechanical ignition problem?	gtman	Fri, 24 October 2003 05:41

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