Thread: HELP!!! key stuck in ignition

Tim ... The whole key is stuck in the housing / it works, but you can't remove it???

Vibration method ... 2 person job
Gab a 12mm piece of wooden dowel and a light hammer... tap the dowel, placed on the end / side of the housing and LIGHTLY Tap tap tap while pulling on the key ... See if the vibrations will release it

Mike

Which reminds me ... Make sure you have a spare barrel & housing on hand , as once you get the key out ... It may not wanna go back in, as all the little springs & brass nodes, inside will let go

I'ld remove the housing while you've still got the key in it (if possible)

Mike

Thanks Mike
I'm having trouble removing the plastic cover around it, it doesn't want to come off while the key is still in the ignition
I'll give your idea a go if i can

CHEERS TIM.

Got the plastic trim off but havn't had any luck removing the key
Tried everything

Then just unbolt the whole housing ...

and then lay it across a sacrificial alter of a Anvil & then whack it with a ceremonial blessed sledge hammer



OR .....


You should be able to turn the barrel to the on position ... so that you can expose & push the holding button that releases the key barrel from the housing




Install a new one

Mike

Try squeezing some graphite powder in the hole.

If you're going to get a new barrel you don't need to get the key out.

And you can probably get the new barrel re-keyed to your old keys so you don't have to do the lot.

I've got a solution

Leave the key in the ignition ..that way you will never lose it

What sucker would ever want to steal a Landrover?...only someone who is ****ed and wants a cheap ride home.

(Tojo and Nissan drivers wouldn't give it a second look)....but that's their problem!

Hope you fix it

There are threads on "ïgnition key won't turn" etc in the D2 area.
All relate to the damaged wafers in the ignition barrel and suggest ways to remove /fix it