Originally Posted by jamesknox
Also, for those of you who have fixed this issue; are you laying on your back inside of the car while working on it or are you sitting in the drivers seat. It seems impossible to lay on my back because the lower dash is sort of just hanging there.
I did it laying on my side across the driver's seat. My key would not turn, had the car towed home, tore the dash apart, and tried ONE LAST TIME to turn the key - and it turned. So I had to do no drilling, just pressed in on the pin near the column and rocked the assembly out of there and fixed it on the bench.
I never did understand what the drilling was all about
-- maybe I was lucky.
It has been over a year, no problems since I did the mod on it.