TEMPORARY IGNITION Switch HELP Please

[BlackPearl2006]

As always, I'm broke, and need a creative way to temporarily be able to engage my starter until I can fix my ignition switch.

I have a 91 manual EX that I've been push-starting for the past week.

My "I" and "II" positions work on the switch. It's the "III" (starter) position that doesn't work.

I bought my car used with an alarm already installed. I noticed there are some wires tapped into the ignition switch wires that go to some non-stock relays I think are wired to the alarm (starter kill?) In fact, I'm not entirely sure if it's my switch that's gone bad, but perhaps something to do with the alarm relays that's preventing me from engaging the starter. When I go to start the car I can hear some relay under the dash clicking partially, sometimes once, sometimes rapidly. It was doing this just before position III stopped working. Now I'm push-starting my car.

Is there a way to "hot wire" the ignition switch to engage the starter somehow? I already tried jumping the white wire to the black/white wire from the back side of the switch (instead of turning to position III). All that did was the same thing (clicking relay under the dash), but no starter.

(and it's not the starter, cuz I don't even hear the starter contacts clicking at all under the hood).

Any thoughts, suggestions?

[jhondayaaj]

sounds like an alarm issue. eliminate the alarm and your car should start right up.

[rudy1980]

pull the fuse on the alarm
if that doesn't work, remove the relay and connect the 2 ends of the starter wire back together.

[accordztech]

the alarm itself works by the starter wire being cut in half, working with a fail safe relay.

to bypass that alarm part you will see the main wire, black/white, split in half and 2 wires from the alarm going on each side of it.

just cut it off and put the line back to what it is....black white to black white. thats it.

if thats not working then its ur ignition switch.

but if u want to temporary make a switch, get a higher amp momentary push button switch and connect one side to power(fuse please), and then on the other side connect it inline to the starter wire. that way when u put the key to the on position u send 12volts down the starter wire to momentaraly activate the starter.

if u are going to do it ghetto, hook up a at least 12 guage wire fused from the WHITE wire under the dash to the black/white wire momentaraly....the reason i say fuse it is cause if u short something it will blow the fuse and not the main fuse in the car.

[rudy1980]

if you do the push button make sure to connect the wire inline after the relay

[accordztech]

technically it woudlnt matter, cause it just flows through (uses 87a) the relay is only energized when the alarm is armed.

id bypass the relay really quick...see if it works fine....if not then put the switch...

dude do you need a ignition switch? i have one....

[jhondayaaj]

it's not the ign sw. it is the alarm system. damn it, fine then. this is what you do, remove the alarm system, there is two wires that is tapped into the ign sw wire which is tapped into the black/white wire. just cut those wires and reconnect the black/white wire together. there ,you just fixed it.

[accordztech]

did you do it yet??? heheh