Hello... when I learned to drive my dad made all 3 of his girls learn to check and change our oil, change a tire and put on tire chains. I have always been fairly independent and fix a lot of things around the house on my own as I was a single mom for many 8 yrs before I met my husband. I have now found myself single again..well widowed as my husband took his own life last month after setting fire to our home. About a month before he had done this he smashed out the windows of my 2001 3500 Sliverado's windows..... all of them except the back window.. My 13 yr old daughter and I have replaced all the windows ourselves and now I have another problem with the truck. When he set fire to the house I was at work and the only truck key I had was in the house. The house was a total loss and with it I lost my truck key. I took the vin# to 2 different dealers and they cut me a total of 4 different keys and none of them work. I was told that the ignition must have been changed at some point before I got the truck. I was also told that I would have to get a new one. So my genus friends said to "youtube" it. So I did. It didn't look too hard and after putting in the windshield and other windows seemed pretty simple. Well I got the shroud around the steering column off with no problem. BUT I can not get the ignition out. I had even resorted to using a screwdriver that I beat the bejusus out of trying to get it to break free so I can pull it out... I am hoping someone here could give me ANY and I mean ANY suggestions as to how to fix this. I really do not want to have to tow the truck to a garage, and I did call a locksmith after I smashed the ignition in and well shockingly he said he didn't want to work on it...lol... thank you in advance for any suggestions.
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