I bought the civic a little while ago, it needed a new lock cylinder, previous owner ripped out the cylinder and broke the housing; i bought an entire steering column and installed it last night.

this is the weird part:

the ignition acts like its 1 position behind. at posistion 0 obviously nothing, position(acc) 1 is nothing also, position(run) 2 the radio comes on nothing else and position(start) 3 the clock and blower comes on but no starter.

im lost... anyone have an idea?

 

hey there, are you sure you have the right part ? and is it wired correctly ? sounds like the wires are mixed up

 

wires dont get messed up when they are simply plugged in. yeah its the right part.

the same issue happened when a screwdriver was used as a key on the old column, i had to turn the position to 3 and arc the starter.

 

i haven't taken apart an ignition cylinder in a while, but if i remember correctly, there is a lock pin on the key cylinder that pops through a small hole in the key cylinder housing.

what this does is makes sure that you can't turn the key cylinder if there is no key. make sure that these are lined up because i think that is the only locating feature on the key cylinder.

i had a similar problem where the key wouldn't turn all the way, until i lined those up

let me know if this helps