Ignition Switch Changeout

Professor Fate said

Before you start tearing into your column, have you tried replacing the ballast resistor? That is exactly the symptom. One bolt and two plugs and you're done. Under $5 at RockAuto. Also available just about everywhere else.

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I thought the same thing but with a ballast resistor, it will start and then quit when you let the switch go to run position. Reason being is the ballast is bypassed in crank but current flows through it when you go to run so a bad ballast will kill a started engine. Perhaps the OP was not written correctly? Cause yeah, if it starts and then quits when you let up, thats for sure a ballast.