Ignition sticking in ‘START’ position. Ignition switch or cylinder?

[Jakey77]

The problem is that when I turn the truck to ‘start’ the key doesn’t spring back to on and the starter continues to fire until I manually move the key back to the ‘on’ position. Is this the key cylinder or would it be the ignition switch?

 

[ceylonfj40nut]

need to remove switch and cylinder to know for sure. Spring is in cylinder as I recall

 

[Jakey77]

need to remove switch and cylinder to know for sure. Spring is in cylinder as I recall

Ok…well I removed the cylinder and it doesn’t spring back on its own from start to on…it catches a little and I have to manually do it. Just not sure if this is normal and maybe the spring is in the switch. More digging I guess

 

[ceylonfj40nut]

Looks like the switch is faulty. You can slot a flat blade screw driver to the switch (round plastic part connected to harness) slot to see if turns without catching.

 

[Jakey77]

Looks like the switch is faulty. You can slot a flat blade screw driver to the switch (round plastic part connected to harness) slot to see if turns without catching.

Put the new switch in and bam! That was the problem. Thanks!