Interduce myself to y'all.

Hello my name is Irene but my user name is mommairene1. I hope this forum is what I am needing and looking for, because I have been having a heck of a time trying to get my little Saturn Ls1 back on the road. Don't like not having no wheels, because unfortunately it's hard to depend on others when you really don't have others to depend on. But my reason for coming to this forum is seeking a answer for I think is not a difficult question. I had to replace my ignition switch and ignition lock cylinder and now I am having problems getting it back together and getting the mechanism inside the housing to engage with one another switch to cylinder. Plus I have a red wire that has come loose from somewhere that is I believe factory spliced into a bigger red wire that goes into the ignition switch. I'm hoping I can figure out how to upload some pics of what I am talking about. Now let me state that when I bought the cylinder it was just the hardware that holds the tumblers... no outer sleeve. But when I got to really looking at the pics of the inside of the housing there looks to be a piece that I believe is part of the sleeve that was on the old cylinder. Someone please tell me what to do with that. And also I have pics of the wire I am speaking of. I need to know where it hooks up to and maybe be able to tell me what it does. Now I'm going to go see if I can upload these pics.

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