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locks are identical left-right and interchangeable

Julian,

Are you sure about this?

On the lock unit, there is a slight chamfer on one edge of the key hole. On my car, this chamfer is facing the handle pull on one door, but facing away from the handle pull on the other door.

I do have some spare bucket/pull/lock piece; both my locks pieces are the same. The lock piece is attached to the bucket with three small screws. On both my units that are not installed, the chamfer is on the side that has two attaching screws. They would both be a match to my current driver's door, but not the passenger door unit.

Perhaps the lock barrel can be removed and rotated 180 degrees, but this doesn't seem to be an easy swap from what I see on my units.

Can you check your complete units more closely with regards to the orientation of the chamfer and the attaching screws?

Thanks,

Larry

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Can you check your complete units more closely with regards to the orientation of the chamfer and the attaching screws?


You are correct they are handed as new, with one chamfer forward the other to the rear, this is to keep the key orientation correct (ridges upward). However if you don't mind the key orientation being opposite you could use them on either door as the key rotates one way to unlock, the other to lock.

The lock barrel can be removed fairly easily by removing the small roll pin in the rod actuator.

There are a couple different key patterns in use, two of mine don't match your blank, one does.

Julian
Sorry I haven't gotten back to some of you. I will try and get caught up. I was inundated with a lot of requests and it became very time consuming (answering questions, requests for pictures, requests for shipping estimates, etc.). I got a little overwhelmed and life got in the way. I will go back through my PMs and try and get back with each and every one of you. Once again, I apologize for the delays.
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