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Originally Posted by Tom Joad
Are you shitin me?
WTF is a detente spring?
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The detente spring is the spring that holds the key's position in the desired place. GM (actually AC Delco) put too short a spring in the ignition switch and it thereby put too little force behind the plunger that goes into the little divots that keep the key in its chosen position.
These aren't newfangled ignition switches. They are the same basic design as has been used for a half a century.
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