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by steptoe » Wed Dec 24, 2014 6:07 pm
Right! Adding these notes
the pics above are of right hand door. when looking at either door, left or right, the correct lock of the paired locks has the 3 o'clock slot position facing forward on both sides. Well, actually, three o'clock on rhs, nine o'clock on left door !!
For correct fitment on RHS door, not only does lock 3 o'clock position face towards front of car, the latch lever - dog bone shape #3 is again a handed beast, so on RHS the #3 stamping needs to be facing the inside of the door skin - (the metal outer skin) so you'd need aither a mirror, or pull lock out to read the number.
I'l know when I get left fitted up whether the 3 on dog bone is visible as viewed from inside door - opposite to rhs.
There are no mods to the hole or slots of the door skin to fit these nice locks in place, fit straight in once the dog bone is in place and the included pull lever retainer thingy.
Also included are beefed up over standard door lock retainer springs.
Back to the only problem is due to no dog bone specific for MY application, the dead lock function does not rotate fully to that 3 o'clock position. It might if you fiddled and filed more out of the stoper inside the dog bone. It is easier to file the tit off the three of four keys that come with the locks. Four keys in total
There is a major key with built in light, two normal keys, and an emergency key that is for odd position lock undoing in an emergency - it already has its tit filed off.
I think it took me longer to get the window reg handle off than it did to install the lock
happy...next door..... again, same story with the winder handle, even though I had the tool ! Ended up using right angled end of a scribe pick thing successfully each time.
Next car ..... done, and this one got some excellent masking of damage done by some smacktard trying to break into "Sarge"s Brumby at the back of the pub several years ago, next door. All set, and confirmed lhs the 3 on the dog bone latch lever faces in to the car interior, opposite to the rhs
Funny how a tale a stolen Brumby some years back, retold today, motivated me to fit these tonight !