So heres the barrel all fallen apart!
If you look around edge of the barrel, you can see some little edges that are slightly bent, its those edges that have slowly over time pushed outwards causing the plastic back plate to fall out!.
![Image](http://www.envyouscustoms.com/Carmodder/Images/BA_XR8_IgnitionBarrel_Apart.jpg)
Once put back together, it should look like below. This time the tabs are pushed over alot, and more little grooves have been dremelled out so more tabs can be pushed over. Theres no way this is every going to fail again!
![Image](http://www.envyouscustoms.com/Carmodder/Images/BA_XR8_IgnitionBarrel_Together.jpg)
Once the steering wheel was off, it was pretty straight foward to get everything else apart, few clips and screws and everything comes apart until you reach the steering column.
Once stripped to that point, the ignition column literally just pulls off.
There are a couple stupid little white clips at the end of the ignition column.. which literally do nothing!. I tried to lever them off very lightly.. but they just snap with any small amounts of pressure. Really they have no purpose!.
I do hope this doesnt happen to anyone, is extremely nerve racking knowing that Ford wants to charge $2000 for a new one!