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    Help! 2005 C6 Column Lock Motor

    It is possible heat is a factor. I did not see anyway to cut the worm gear. The microswitch needs to cycle from on to off to on or the computer thinks the car is being tampered with. The solution I build comes as close as possible to mimic this behavior. Since I retained the electric motor from...
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    Help! 2005 C6 Column Lock Motor

    This could be the cause. On my vette the dash info display clearly states "Service Column Lock". If yours does not, then I do not know if this is the cause. Check your battery voltage. This could be the cause. ----------------------------- I have updated the design for the 2005 C6 MT6 Column...
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    Help! 2005 C6 Column Lock Motor

    Our 2005 C6 has 20K miles and the Column Lock mechanism has failed twice. After the second failure, I took apart the mechanism and I am sure it was poorly fabricated. The plastic block and screw mechanism was binding in the block. I cleaned and relubricated it, and it still was binding. After...
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    Help! 2005 C6 Column Lock Motor

    I have ordered the raw material. It will take about 10 days until I have time to put it all together and test it. All I am doing in this solution is replacing a single pole double throw (SPDT) microswitch with an equivalent latching relay. I am reusing much of the earlier C5 CLB design...
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    Help! 2005 C6 Column Lock Motor

    As many of you know, the 2005 C6 manual trans sold in the US have a column lock motor. This motor is no better and in many ways may be worse than the design used in the C5 family. The Column Lock Bypass built for the C5 cannot be directly used in the C6 due to different connectors and designs in...
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