1995 Mazda B2300 Manual Trans.

[tlredd54]

Hello community, I am from Richmond, Virginia.
I am here to hopefully help you and you help me, I have a 1995 Mazda B2300 Manual Trans and I have a problem like you all were discussing.
Here is what I have found with my Mazda, I lowered the steering wheel down enough without breaking anything. Removing everything in the way.
There is a plastic slide between the Key Switch and the Electrical Switch that is broken and will not allow me to turn off my truck but I can start it up with the key.
My question is where can we find the parts needed to make the repair?
I have been working on vehicles since 1975 and this is the first time I have encountered a problem like this one.
Okay, Community where can we get this part from beside the Junk Yard?

 

[Rick]

There are some parts that have to be found good/used. That is likely one of them. Try a local junkyard. Occasionally you can get lucky and find what you need on Ebay.

 

[tlredd54]

There are some parts that have to be found good/used. That is likely one of them. Try a local junkyard. Occasionally you can get lucky and find what you need on Ebay.

Thank you Mr. Rick's I will take that under consideration but the junkyards are very much limited for the 1995 Mazda B23000 parts I have been there on other parts for this Mazda. But I will do as you have mentioned.

 

[Josh P]

Ignition switches are available new. The $64k question is did the pin fall out of the upper lock actuator. That is usually what causes the key not being able to turn the vehicle off.

 

[RangerX]

I’m not familiar with that exact part so I don’t know how specific it is, but I would think that it’s the same in any 93-97 Ranger and maybe back to 90 or 91, also 91-94 Explorers and maybe further into the 90s.
Also seems like you could just swap in a whole steering column from any of the mentioned vehicles.