Another NO Start...........
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Another NO Start...........
Ok, here goes. I have a 1987 F250 6.9 n/a automatic extended cab pickup. I think I know the answer but would like to get a few second opinions. I turn on the key and wait for the WTS light to go out. I turn the key and nothing happens. I can hear the glo plugs cycling but the engine never turns over. I think I have a bad ignition switch which I was going to R&R a few months ago but never did. I had the same thing happen last year but put graphite in the ignition switch and it started every time till the last few days. Today I made it home and now nothing. I don't want to keep trying the switch and burn up the glo plugs.
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I wiggled the shifter in park and neutral. Nothing. Where is the neutral saftey switch?
I found where I posted back in 2009 with the same question. I guess it was farther back than I thought. I have the steps to replacing the actuator so I"m back in business, tomorrow. I"m glad I had everything bought for mothers day or I"d be in deep doo-doo.
I found where I posted back in 2009 with the same question. I guess it was farther back than I thought. I have the steps to replacing the actuator so I"m back in business, tomorrow. I"m glad I had everything bought for mothers day or I"d be in deep doo-doo.
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It sounds like your ignition switch is either bad or contact is not being made with it. Try cycling the key and see if it starts. If it starts with the key eventually, I would say it is one of the above issues.
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Thanks 96extracab, I was wondering if that was a possiblity. That'll be the first order of business tomorrow
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I cycled the key more times than I wanted to just to get home and nothing. I was afraid of killing the glo plugs.
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you can check the neutral safety switch if you have a 12 volt tester. or you could just unplug the switch and jumper the wires. thats what my dad had to do... twice... original one died and then the napa one died
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there is a tiny little plug that goes on one of the small terminals of the celonoid tak that off and use a screwdriver to jump from the battery side of the celonoid to the tiny terminal
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shove the screwdriver forward to make contact with the positive side of the cylinoid
shove the screwdriver forward to make contact with the positive side of the cylinoid
