ive been told the actual sound making device has a major computer compnent attached to it. I mentioned the hammer idea to my ford guy and he said that i would be destroying a 500 dollar part.

lol, dinger transducer

oh sorry its grinomyte im at a friends house.

 

canyonslicker,

The chime is integrated with the GEM. It is not like other vehicles where you simply unplug it. Reinstall the orange switch and place electrical tape over the contacts or between the points inside of it. By removing the cover you could trace the wire and cut it.

JMC

 

Grinomyte - If you are talking about the tab inside the cylinder chamber, I actually removed it (pulled it out of the chamber and there was a black with pink stripe wire attached to it) and it still was dinging. I also removed the orange tab on the cylinder, reinstalled, and it was still dinging.

Again, I want the dinging to go away when I put the ignition into the accessory position (turned back towards driver). Have you all accomplished this??? In a 2001 SCrew???

 

Hey Lightning,

I am having the same problem as you. I tried insulating everything in there as well . Except when the key is off I can disable the "dinger"

I think what is happening is when the key is in any other position besides off . It uses a different circuit than the tumbler assy. Maybe it's a current sensing scheme but I doubt it because the tone changes for headlamps being on . So that leads me to believe that there must be a wire somewhere else that can be disconnected .

The other alternative (not a good one) is to disable the door switches. That means no inside lights when you open the door.

Well I asked my brother , who is a Ford mech. , to find out once and for all.

I will keep you posted.

 

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Not sure if this is related or not, but worth mentioning anyway.

My '98 F-150 ignition lock cylinder is giving me problems (go figure!).

Whenever I open the door to my truck with no key in the ignition or anything, the truck begins to chime the tone related to "leaving the headlights on" theme. This happens when I leave the headlights on after turning the truck off (as normal operation - friendly reminder to say "Hey idiot, you left your friggin' lights on again!), or whenever I am not using the headlights at all. I have absolutely no clue what would be making this happen.

I believe it may be related to the Ignition Lock Cylinder and something stuck open or broken within it, but no clue what could be happening. I know how to remove the Ignition Lock Cylinder (thanks Haynes Manual) but I have no idea what to look out for. I doubt it's a short or anything. Anyone else having or had this situation before??

Thanks.

 

There is a switch contact built into the cylinder to nag you to remove the key when the door is opened.

Easiest way to get rid of that is to remove the lower column shroud and clip the single wire. IIRC it's black/purple or something like that.

Steve

 

Whenever I've used my truck as a portable jukebox... what I would do is open the doors, and then get a screw driver, and set the lock mechanism in the door as if the door was shut. Works like a charm all the time... just need a knife, screwdriver, or some other type of rod unless you don't mind some greasy finger tips.

Mind you, you need to reverse the process in order for you to close the doors and lock the truck back up.

 

I was thinking about finding either the wire or the fuse related to the chime and disabling it, but now I'm hoping to avoid it.

Is it possible to fix the switch contact inside the lock cylinder? If not, oh well. Maybe I'll take your advice and just clip the damn wire and hope I don't leave my light on again (it's happened a few times).

 

JameAtTech,

Did you ever get your situation resolved? My truck is doing the same thing and I would like to get it taken care of.

Mickey

 

i would like to stop the dining when my key is on and my door is open but i want to be able to still to still hear a chime if i leave my lights on. is it possible.

 

hey thanks, that worked perfectly, absolutely no problem! props guys

 

Worked for me too. Thanks.