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No key, how to hot wire

STREETREBEL

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I bought a car without a ignition key. Someone show me how to hot wire it.
 
battery to starter solenoid to coil screw driver across starter solenoid. i believe that is correct
 
Hot wire to + side of coil. Jump solenoid. Or go to the parts store and buy a new ignition switch for a few bucks. Easier/safer looks more like you didn't steal the car.
 
Hot wire to + side of coil. Jump solenoid. Or go to the parts store and buy a new ignition switch for a few bucks. Easier/safer looks more like you didn't steal the car.
I mail ordered a new key set. But I want to try and start it now.
 
Yep, back in the late 50's and early 60's, I would always go the car lots late at night and kick tires and check out the new rides. I would also take a wire that I placed on the + side of the coil to the + side of the battery. Then with a set of pliers or screwdriver, the simple thing was to short the starter solenoid. I could have stole virtually any car that I desired. Easy as pie !
 
For GM products I had a set of master keys back in the day that worked on virtually any GM. Mopars were always the easiest to hot wire.... if you needed to..
 
Second, Don't come to my house and try it.
 
I would not run it very long with straight battery voltage to the plus side of coil as you are bypassing the ballast resistor and may over heat the coil.
 
If I was rippin' a car off, I really wouldn't care about the coil. And, I've bypassed the ballast resistor MANY times. Heck, he just wants to hear it run for a little bit.
 
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