key cylinder

Has anyone seen one of these before? It looks to be riveted in place and completely envelopes the ignition cylinder on my 2002 TJ. I drilled a hole through the bottom to access the cylinder release clip but this dang shield still holds it in place. How do I remove this thing? There's not enough...

Since I got my Jeep the ignition has been quite temperamental, generally it needed a very slow turn of the key to make it start, if turned quickly you’d get no crank at all, however apart from that it had no issues starting at all. I got in this morning and it failed to start, however after...

Haven’t been able to find anything like this on the net. My recently purchased 1997 TJ has something weird going on with the ignition cylinder. There seems to be a shroud or guide missing where you insert the key. What happened here? It functions fine, just makes putting the key in a little...

Not my issue, but on a family friend's 1999 4.0L. He has an issue where he can't get the key to turn unless he gives it a couple of good smacks with a mallet, and obviously, it gets worse each time. Is this the cylinder or the switch? Or maybe some other part, I don't know how the key-area works...