what do you do when your resistor falls out of your key wile you were at work and you cant start your car? and your baby is stuck at a parking lot?

 

Have your spare ignition key sent to your car location! No spare key? Then take ign key and pellet and have two more keys made, one to retrieve your car and the other as a spare at home!

 

......i have heard that with a vin number and proof of ownership, a dealership can cut you a key.........true or not, may be worth investigating.....

 

Just turn the key to the "on" position with engine off, and jump battery voltage directly to the starter solenoid with a piece of wire. That will start the car and get you home. Just bridge the small terminal of the starter solenoid with that big fat cable next to it. That big fat cable is hot at all times.

 

......doesn't the vats disable the fuel flow/pump and the spark?

 

I got my car to start like this when my starter enable relay took a dump and left me sitting in a parking lot. I had to do this each time I shut the car off, untill I replaced the relay.

If his dash lights will still come and everything when he turns the key "on" even with the missing pellet, he should be good to go.

All he needs now is current to the starter to spin it. My method bypasses the VATS. The spark cutoff only occurs when the VATS is actually activated I beleive. So I don't think the car will "know".

 

That may turn the starter over, but your key also worked still since you had a bad starter enable relay. It still sent a signal to the computer. his problem is he can't send the signal.. so you got the starter enable relay and the computer's fuel pulse on start signals it needs to still get somehow. Even if the starter were jumped, it may not get any fuel do to lack of signal from the relay in the key being sent through.

 

It worked for my 88, but I am lucky to have a standard and just had to get some help to push and dump the clutch in second!!

 

From 86PACER:
If his dash lights will still come and everything when he turns the key "on" even with the missing pellet, he should be good to go.
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Not true! VATS closes the start enable relay AND tells the computer to pulse the injectors. If you jump the start enable relay, what good will cranking an engine whose injectors are disabled? Ans: It doesn't do any good.

 

From GREAT WHITE NORTH:
It worked for my 88, but I am lucky to have a standard and just had to get some help to push and dump the clutch in second!!
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If you want to replace or repair your OD, pop the clutch to start your car!!!!!!!!!! Don't ask how I know!

 

Have you actually tried it or are you theorizing?

I did exactly that on my car when I was stranded in a parking lot. If you leave the key in the "On" position with the dash lights on but engine still off, then jump current to the starter, the car will start.

I believe the VATS cutts off the injectors when the correct key and pellet is not present in the ignition switch, when someone is trying to start it. This is why I think if he's missing his pellet it might not work. But if you're pellet is there, I know this works because I've done it.

You're telling someone who actually did it, that this won't work. I got around like this for a few days untill I got the relay replaced. I don't know what year your car is, but this should work on the L98.

Further more, this exact same procedure is mentioned in the Haynes manual if you car is not starting. That's where I got the idea when stranded in the parking lot, and it worked.

I'm not sure if the OP can do the same with a missing pellet or not. He'll just have to try it and find out. What I would like to know is if his digital cluster will light up when he turns the key "on". If it does, I would just try jumping voltage to the starter and see what happens.