Ok I have a buddy that I am trying desperately to help out He has a 2001 Expy the truck was vandelized among the things that were either stolen, damaged or destroyed in this vehicle one of them was the gauge cluster was trashed as they tried to steal it for his white gauge faces.

He bought a new gauge cluster from a 2001 f150 from a scrap yard with damn near the same milage on it. When we put it in the pats system will not allow the vehicle to start. We put the original trashed one in and it starts fine. I had a friend that is a locksmith come out that owns the $4000.00 machine that programs the chip keys for fords and he has tried programing new keys for the truck with the new cluster in and no luck he has also tried resetting everything and then programing new keys still no luck. What is that we need to do in order to get this thing to work? is there a way of bypassing the PATS system? HELP!!! We are going nuts tring to figure this out.