Automotive Locksmith: How to rekey a Strattec Ford Ignition 707624 Kit

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In this video, we are going show you how to rekey step-by-step, a Ford ignition. This is a Strattec Ford Ignition kit #707624. The kit has all the wafers and pieces, so you can rekey the lock to the customer key. The Fords are so popular, they’re in the top 10 stolen vehicles in Canada, if not North America. The Ford ignitions are constantly being attacked by car theives, so we are replacing lots of Ford ignitions.

In this video we are going to show how to put together this Ford ignition kit. This is probably one of the most widely used ignition sets, cars from 1996 up to 2012. It fits Rangers, Excursions, F Series, just about anything out there. We use Strattec. Strattec is a great quality part. There’s almost no failures on it, and for Ford, GM, and Chrysler vehicles, they’re the best. The kit comes with everything you’ll need to code the cylinder.This is a Ford eight cut system. Eight cuts, refers to the number of wafers in the lock. You start counting from the bow, you go to the tip.

Typically on this cylinder, and on the vehicles that this fits, you’re dealing with one to six cuts in the door, and you’re dealing with two to eight in the ignition cylinder.

You can lubricate, open the package, and you can put some grease on the wafers. Make sure you’ve got it good and lubed up. The cylinder moves freely. The trickiest part of the whole operation seems to be getting the ball bearing to come down and depress in here.

You notice that in the Strattec kit they give you extra parts and two ball bearings. There’s a good reason for that. Probably in about 60% of the cases, you’re gonna lose one of them. So, what happens now, take out your ball bearings and don’t lose it before you start. But, in here, this spring goes down. Okay, push it down and make sure it’s firmly seated. Then, you’ve got to get a ball bearing on top of it, and you’re going to depress the ball bearing and turn the cylinder at the same time. The spring goes into this hole. Make sure you’ve got it down all the way. Just kind of tap it down. The next thing is a ball bearing that goes down on top of the spring. Now, you’ve got to depress the spring and the ball bearing, and turn the cylinder at the same time. So, you press down, and you turn, and you’ll notice right in here, there’s the ball bearing. So you can turn your cylinder and you get it working positively. Your next part, this retainer goes back in. And you turn your cylinder to the position where the retainer goes down, so that you can reinstall your cylinder into the vehicle. You can see as you push it, turn it, that will pop up. So, if you look at the position here, you’re never gonna get that into your column. Turn it, and you get the position correct, that will drop. And your cylinder turns perfectly.

In conclusion, Randy just showed you how to do step-by-step, the Ford ignition. This is a hugely popular ignition that we have to replace. I hope it was useful to you. Thank you, very much. I hope you enjoyed watching this video. Subscribe to my channel. Also, visit my website, and you can see what online locksmith training I have, for beginners, intermediate and advanced, as well as my covert methods of entry, and my non-destructive methods of entry.

Terry Whin-Yates is a 3rd Generation Locksmith with 35+ years of Locksmith Experience and has a BA (Honors) in Criminology.

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