Duh! forgot the trailer...
-=Chris
Chris King - cbking@alum.rpi.edu
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kvcbk/
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From "Chris King" <cbking at alum.rpi.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 20:00:55 -0400
Just an update:
I checked the shaft - the numbers match so it is the correct key. I
disassembled the thimble and springs, and I see the swuare shaft that the
tumbler turns. Boy, is that thing rusted!
I don;t have an electrolysis setup - anyone have a good way to loosen this thig
without it? alternatively, who's got the link to the electrolysis info?
TIA!
-=Chris
Chris King - cbking@alum.rpi.edu
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kvcbk/
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From "Chris King" <cbking at alum.rpi.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:12:47 -0400
>Thanks Paul. I'll give this a try. I've had the handle out on the bench, the
>washers are rusty, so I assume the small pin is stuck in there.
>
>BTW, according to the Driver's handbook for 1979, I'm supposed to only have
>two keys - the big rubber-ended one for the ignition, and the small one for
>everything else. I'll look for the key number tonight. I have the original
>key, so I'll be able to quickly tell if it matches.
>
>-=Chris
>
>Chris King - cbking@alum.rpi.edu
>http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kvcbk/
>
>
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: pasgeirsson@att.net
>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 01:44:17 +0000
>
>>Hi Chris,
>>
>>I just completed rebuilding one of these for a customer. It's possible that
>the
>>key doesn't fit properly, but if you can move it a bit through the turn, that
>>part might be OK. DON'T force the twist!
>>
>>When you turn the key in the lock, there is a tiny pin located off center and
>>that in turn moves a bar that goes through that square shank with the crimps
>on
>>it. Likely that's frozen with rust, and that offset pin is really fragile.
>>Grind off the crimps on the shaft and then slide off the thimble like piece.
>>There will be a spring washer between two size flat washers, when those come
>>off, you can see the tiny bar that slides back and forth. I put this whole
>>assembly in my handy dandy electrolysis (sp?) plastic waste basket with the
>pot
>>lid and coat hangars hooked up to a small battery charger and let the rust
>>dissappear!
>>
>>That little bar will get loose enough so you can move it back and forth and
>>clean up any rust on it.
>>
>>Then you can lube it a bit, tumblers included with some NON grease type of
>lube
>>and reassemble it. Now, the crimps no longer work, so you drill a tiny hole
>>through the shaft at the crimps and put a tiny roll pin in there! It's that
>simple!
>>
>>Good luck, Paul A
>>> Listers,
>>>
>>> The boot handle off my '79 seems to be stuck in the unlocked position - I
>cannot
>>> get the key to turn. Keys work in the door locks.
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