BroncoDipper
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I had my Bronco in the body shop that my son recommended. They fixed all the rust on the floor pan in the bed area and cab area. I have to say they did an outstanding job from what I saw the other day before they put the tailgate back on.
My son calls today with great news... the Bronco is all done! So I call the shop and the guy says yep it's done, but it won't start. He says, and I quote 'There are major problems with this thing'. Which is the last thing I wanted to hear.
I go to the garage to see what is going on. The guy tells me it is turning over but 'just won't start'. I get in to give it a crank and see what happens and first thing I notice is the outer ring for the ignition key is missing. In order to get the key to move I had to jiggle the gear selector. Sure enough it cranked but wouldn't start. I asked what happened to the ignition and he said that's the way it was when it came to him. (He was the second person to work on the floor pan). He said he pulled the plugs and said fuel is definitely getting to the cylinder and according to him there was spark too... THEN he tells me 'Well it did start up once.' He said he started it to back it out and it 'backfired really bad' and blew out my muffler! After that he said it just wouldn't start again. Wait, it gets better... When I was trying to crank it, the key felt like it was binding and really hard to turn. I turned the key to off, then tried again and this time it wouldn't even crank. The key felt like if I used any more force it would either break off in the ignition or something in the ignition switch was going to break. So he says "I think there is something wrong somewhere in your ignition system." Duh... ya think?! I can say with certainty that ONE of the problems is with the ignition switch.
I know... a lot going on here and I don't know where to start or what to think either. I really doubt the messed up ignition switch and gear selector is causing it to initially turn over but not to start, but it wasn't like that when it was taken in to the shop. And what would cause it to backfire so bad that it blew my muffler apart at the seam? Honestly up to this point the only thing wrong with my Bronco was some typical floor pan rust and I figured after I got that fixed I was going to have a pretty cherry Bronco. Now I have no idea what is wrong or how much this is going to cost. A mechanic is going to look at it tomorrow, but right now I am both ticked and sick to my stomach.
I had my Bronco in the body shop that my son recommended. They fixed all the rust on the floor pan in the bed area and cab area. I have to say they did an outstanding job from what I saw the other day before they put the tailgate back on.
My son calls today with great news... the Bronco is all done! So I call the shop and the guy says yep it's done, but it won't start. He says, and I quote 'There are major problems with this thing'. Which is the last thing I wanted to hear.
I go to the garage to see what is going on. The guy tells me it is turning over but 'just won't start'. I get in to give it a crank and see what happens and first thing I notice is the outer ring for the ignition key is missing. In order to get the key to move I had to jiggle the gear selector. Sure enough it cranked but wouldn't start. I asked what happened to the ignition and he said that's the way it was when it came to him. (He was the second person to work on the floor pan). He said he pulled the plugs and said fuel is definitely getting to the cylinder and according to him there was spark too... THEN he tells me 'Well it did start up once.' He said he started it to back it out and it 'backfired really bad' and blew out my muffler! After that he said it just wouldn't start again. Wait, it gets better... When I was trying to crank it, the key felt like it was binding and really hard to turn. I turned the key to off, then tried again and this time it wouldn't even crank. The key felt like if I used any more force it would either break off in the ignition or something in the ignition switch was going to break. So he says "I think there is something wrong somewhere in your ignition system." Duh... ya think?! I can say with certainty that ONE of the problems is with the ignition switch.
I know... a lot going on here and I don't know where to start or what to think either. I really doubt the messed up ignition switch and gear selector is causing it to initially turn over but not to start, but it wasn't like that when it was taken in to the shop. And what would cause it to backfire so bad that it blew my muffler apart at the seam? Honestly up to this point the only thing wrong with my Bronco was some typical floor pan rust and I figured after I got that fixed I was going to have a pretty cherry Bronco. Now I have no idea what is wrong or how much this is going to cost. A mechanic is going to look at it tomorrow, but right now I am both ticked and sick to my stomach.