For the last couple of months since fitting a greddy turbo timer I have been able to take the key out and the engine will run until the end of the countdown.

For some reason I now cant remove the key until the countdown finishes and the engine shuts down, the key will then come out as normal by pressing the little button.

 

Has anyone come across this?

The turbo timer shouldn't affect this at all, so I'd say your ignition barrel might be having issues. You're unable to press the button and release it at all when the turbo timer is active?

The turbo timer shouldn't affect this at all, so I'd say your ignition barrel might be having issues. You're unable to press the button and release it at all when the turbo timer is active?

 

If I turn the key and press the button the button wont depress and release the key, but as soon as the engine stops the button will depress and release the key.if I switch the turbo timer off, turn the key to off and press the button the key will come straight out.

There is a small solenoid fitted on the top of the barrel as a default this prevents the key been removed whilst the power is on, normally when you turn the key off the solenoid is deactivated and so allows the key to be removed.

 

So when using a turbo timer it keeps the power onto the solenoid and hence the key will not come out, the fact you were previously able to pull it out with the turbo timer on suggests the solenoid was playing up ( jamming) and has now started working again, so best all round cure is to remove it.

 

Remove the steering cowlings to access the key barrel, you will see the solenoid attached to the top of the barrel, it can be literally prised off and the cable connector disconneted and job done will not be a problem again.

 

Jeff

Cheers jeff, will have a look tomorrow :)

There is a small solenoid fitted on the top of the barrel as a default this prevents the key been removed whilst the power is on, normally when you turn the key off the solenoid is deactivated and so allows the key to be removed.

 

So when using a turbo timer it keeps the power onto the solenoid and hence the key will not come out, the fact you were previously able to pull it out with the turbo timer on suggests the solenoid was playing up ( jamming) and has now started working again, so best all round cure is to remove it.

 

Remove the steering cowlings to access the key barrel, you will see the solenoid attached to the top of the barrel, it can be literally prised off and the cable connector disconneted and job done will not be a problem again.

 

Jeff

 

Sounds like the reason that my old JDM did the same with a turbo timer installed. Thanks Jeff :sailor: I cured mine when I wrote it off :pinch: lol

Dill, if you do as jeff has stated and you are still not able to get the key out of the ignition with the timer activated and engine running out drop me a line ill explain what i had to do to mine.

This might just be a case of the turbo timer not being wired up right, because I can get mine out no problem with the turbo timer running, could do so on both my GTR and my Supra too, both of which had the same little button for the key, what's the odds of all three of the cars having the solenoid playing up?

This might just be a case of the turbo timer not being wired up right, because I can get mine out no problem with the turbo timer running, could do so on both my GTR and my Supra too, both of which had the same little button for the key, what's the odds of all three of the cars having the solenoid playing up?

 

The turbo timer was plug and play with one of those looms that just plugs in

 

 

Could something be out on the park position on the shifter cos its an auto?

Ah, see mine is hard wired in, because the standard loom they come with, keeps all your accessories running as well as the engine, it connects 3 wires instead of only 2. I've literally got stage 2 of my ignition wired in, not stage 1, so all my accessories (Clock, Stereo, etc.) all turn off when I switch to the turbo timer. My GTR and my Supra were the same, except the Supra one wasn't hard wired, it was using the harness. Does your stereo turn off when you go to turbo timer?

No, stereo and everything will stay on as the turbo timer counts down, when it hits zero it all goes off.tbh its not a real problem as it normally counts down while im getting all my crap (fags, phone etc) together, then I take the key out.but it just seemed odd that for weeks ive been able to remove the key when on countdown but now I cant.

I'd say Jeffs right then, the solenoid is perhaps playing up, sometimes it works, other times it doesn't.

just dawned on me that when I did my passenger side targa drain yesterday I cleaned up all the corroded connectors in the passenger footwell and sprayed them with wd40, so perhaps the solenoid is working as its meant to as a result.thinking about it the beeper for reverse is also working now!.

lmao, that'd do it then ;)

all good now, removed the solenoid as per jeffs advice and the key comes out now with the turbotimer counting down :)

 

Cheers jeff, and everyone else who replied