I believe the wafers in my ignition cylinder just wore out, and I can no longer turn the ignition to start the car. I can get the key in and out, though.
2006 EX with about 255,000 miles.
I bought a replacement cylinder and wafers and will either replace the bad wafers in the existing cylinder or just replace the cylinder and key it with the correct wafers since I'm already in there.
But here's the issue... I've watched lots of tutorials and read lots of posts from people, and they seem to make it sound like it's no big deal to just "take the cylinder out". This leads me to believe that I can do it without having to remove the shear bolts, ignition switch, and other components.
Photo of the remaining cover with last remaining screw attached.
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I got the covers all off, and then right on top of where you put the key in, I got an outer black plastic cover off, and then there's one more under that, behind which is the actual cylinder. There's one last screw I can't get off without a 90 degree screwdriver, which I ordered and will arrive tomorrow.
Does anyone happen to know if the cylinder will just slide right out once that's off? Or am I missing something?
On all the tutorials about replacing everything, they mention the shear bolts but somehow always have an incredible amount of clearance to work with everything. I'm not sure if they are just skipping steps or something, because I don't have anywhere near that kind of clearance. The right-hand shear bolt is almost completely inaccessible, blocked primarily by the ignition components themselves. People seem to indicate this entire thing was a 1 hour job and I'm scratching my head wondering if there's something I'm missing. I replaced my water pump and timing belt a couple weeks ago - which people said was really hard - and it was a straightforward job, but I'm struggling with this!
I've been watching some non-Odyssey Honda tutorials on doing this, and it looks like I will have direct access after removing that housing, but I'm going to have to drill a hole in the assembly to get the pin out and release it. Hopefully I have enough space to drill while it's still in the car. Some tutorials were able to do it right in the car but others had the whole thing out, so I guess we'll see.
Thanks in advance for any insight.
2006 EX with about 255,000 miles.
I bought a replacement cylinder and wafers and will either replace the bad wafers in the existing cylinder or just replace the cylinder and key it with the correct wafers since I'm already in there.
But here's the issue... I've watched lots of tutorials and read lots of posts from people, and they seem to make it sound like it's no big deal to just "take the cylinder out". This leads me to believe that I can do it without having to remove the shear bolts, ignition switch, and other components.
Photo of the remaining cover with last remaining screw attached.
I got the covers all off, and then right on top of where you put the key in, I got an outer black plastic cover off, and then there's one more under that, behind which is the actual cylinder. There's one last screw I can't get off without a 90 degree screwdriver, which I ordered and will arrive tomorrow.
Does anyone happen to know if the cylinder will just slide right out once that's off? Or am I missing something?
On all the tutorials about replacing everything, they mention the shear bolts but somehow always have an incredible amount of clearance to work with everything. I'm not sure if they are just skipping steps or something, because I don't have anywhere near that kind of clearance. The right-hand shear bolt is almost completely inaccessible, blocked primarily by the ignition components themselves. People seem to indicate this entire thing was a 1 hour job and I'm scratching my head wondering if there's something I'm missing. I replaced my water pump and timing belt a couple weeks ago - which people said was really hard - and it was a straightforward job, but I'm struggling with this!
I've been watching some non-Odyssey Honda tutorials on doing this, and it looks like I will have direct access after removing that housing, but I'm going to have to drill a hole in the assembly to get the pin out and release it. Hopefully I have enough space to drill while it's still in the car. Some tutorials were able to do it right in the car but others had the whole thing out, so I guess we'll see.
Thanks in advance for any insight.
