The key turns a pinch to the right and the black cylinder turns and turns with effort but nothing will pull those tumblers out...the key is holding hard.

 

Have you tried moving the steering wheel? By doing so you may get lucky and release pressure from the locking mechanism which will allow the key to be removed.

 

Just this morning I picked up where I left off and started #10 where I inserted the key but could not turn it to POSITION 1, thinking I had the “key won’t turn” delima

Tried multiple times with no success, including jiggling the steering wheel. Looking around I saw the telescoping adjust so I then moved it back and forth about 5 times while trying for POSITION 1. On the last attempt it worked !

....some bright design engineer or a Rube Goldberg type might explain why the gods are angry or not.

 

Sometimes we miss the simple things

 

Sticky Key fix:

I threw away the spring and pin, and am on the downhill side to where I was putting the tumbler and black cylinder back in.........with no luck.
after an hour of this, I separated the two and put the tumbler in....but now I cannot insert the black cylinder.

#1 shows key in off position




this is the black cylinder ..........showing the flat outside segment and the inside concave segment


does anyone know how the cylinder gets put back ........?

should I have put them on together ?

 

Tab down to interior and it gives you a step by step.
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