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What year toyota truck?
For a long time in the late 80's, early 90's, a lot of toyotas shared the ignition module. Depending on the key cut and year, there was only roughly 6 different keys for all Corollas and Camrys per year. Gather up enough toyota keys from that interlock system for a single year of car and you will eventually have a key that will work in any similar toyota made that year. The tolernaces on the lock tumblers were so loose that, as the keys and tumblers wore down over the years, even slightly different keys will ofter unlock the same lock.
Regardless, even without keys early 90's toyota door frames were very thin at the tops, especially for the small coupes.. with a wooden wedge in the top of the and a hooked coat hanger you could quickly wedge the top of the door open, grab the big lock latch on the inside and pop it unlocked.
The 5-7 wires running to the ignition switch arent labeled with any normal coloring but it doesn't matter, because if you cut them all and bunch them together it turns everything on and jumps the starter. At that point it is just finding which wire is the starter so you know which one to disconnect after the car starts.
The steering interlock would go by sitting in the passenger seat and legpressing the wheel to the left with your feet- it fails in one of two ways- either you break the just interlock and you're home free, or you break the column and the coupler.
You got lucky, and the column broke .
Yea, early 90's toyotas: the car almost steals itself.
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