Starting a engine with no keys-hotwiring? options?

[myMoparHome]

Just picked up a 79 dodge van-motorhome for parts has a 360 with 44000 miles but no keys! i want to try and start it before I pull the motor, how cam i get around the fact I have no keys ??

 

[dukeboy440]

Hot wire.....

 

[pomonamissel]

wire from pos battery post to key side of the ballast res , then jump the relay sol from battery pole to starter lead next to it . but that wouldn't unlock the steering wheel to drive it , you can't put it in gear unless you unlock it .

 

[moparwelder340]

pull the key lock with a dent puller, put your finger in the hole and whola! you can drive it...(no experience there),just get new locks for it.

 

[Divenut]

pull the key lock with a dent puller, put your finger in the hole and whola! you can drive it...(no experience there),just get new locks for it.

Yep...that's how I started a 73 Mustang I drove way back when...at least until I blew a rod through the block :-O

 

[pomonamissel]

well thats better than mine , ya hank that ing key lock assembly , start it with a screw driver after its removed .

 

[myMoparHome]

Ok i have a dent puller gonna give it a try this weekend! grand theft auto style!

 

[pomonamissel]

ya , gone in 60 sec's .

 

[moparwelder340]

Ok i have a dent puller gonna give it a try this weekend! grand theft auto style!

yeeeaaa budddy!!giva sum!!

 

[moparwelder340]

ya , gone in 60 sec's .

i bet i'm faster

 

[pomonamissel]

in n down da road in less , wow . don't stand by my car , please . lol .

 

[moparwelder340]

be kinda hard considering i'm on the eastern seaboard....and besides ...what i lost my keys a few times

 

[moparwelder340]

and i'm sitting here laughing out lound ...good thing wife is at work today she'll think i went nuts