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ARG! Stupid Locks...

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Webb Sledge

Webb Sledge

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Ok, I got my new locks installed, but the lock won't stay in place. the left side clip (if you're looking at it from inside the door) won't click into place really well, and the lock will come up everytime the key is turned. How can I get it to stay down?
 
A ten pound sledge did it for me. Really I played a bit with the clip it finally went for me.
 
Does the clip have to have a sharp point on the end of where they stick out and into the door? I am guessing so, because I filed the point down very slightly so that it wouldn't hang on the rubber gasket that goes around the lock, and now the side that got the most filing slides right out. I am really ticked at myself, since I'll have to buy another $50 pair of locks, and take both doors apart again! *#(@ !
 
Take the spring clip off the old lock cylinder, or bend the tab on the new one to compensate for the filing you did. The other thing that messes with these locks is bondo in the door lock area.....needs more filing/ sharper tab. Put the gasket onto the cylinder first....
MD(mad dog)
 
Re: ARG! Stupid Locks...

Get rid of the clips completely.
Take a look at the new, improved design in Moss Motors catalogue. Purchase 4 steel washers, 2 neoprene washers and 4 set screws, add some ingenuity and Viola!! a non-rotating, solidly positioned door lock.
 
I didn't know anybody locked their TR. No need making a thief angry and slitting the top.
 
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ain't that the truth. Nothing to steal inside the TR....except the TR itself of course. I knew a guy who pulled his steering wheel everytime he parked it. He did look kind of silly walking around the shopping centers with a steering wheel though. No one ever did steal his car either. A fuel cutoff switch or battery cutoff switch, or both, hidden in a secret location can be useful.
 
Easiest thing to wire is an ignition cut-off. Low current makes it simpler than a battery cut-off and allows you to use a toggle switch somewhere in the cockpit. All you need to do is interupt the hot wire to the coil (might be a white wire) with a pair of wires running to a toggle switch.

Not very elaborate but your usual car thief is in a hurry and doesn't really want to take time to look for it.

BTW - Had a friend get her car stolen just yesterday afternoon... was getting gas at a Circle K (like a 7-11) and had a problem with the pump scanning her credit card. Went inside for less than a minute... keys still in the car... it was gone before she came back out. Someone was standing around waiting for a car to be left with the keys -- they probably didn't have to wait long and considering the car (an 88 Bronco) weren't too particular what they got. Just a word to the wise about leaving the keys in the ignition while you fill up.
 
Yeah, my switch is actually an ignition switch, not a battery switch, I just wrote the wrong thing.

As for your friend and her car, that's aweful! That's also why I never leave my keys in my car, even for a couple minutes. Certainly the theif would rather have a Triumph than a Bronco... or maybe not. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif


As for the ignition switch, I believe it was hooked up under the dash somewhere, but I'm not totally sure. Would the white wire (I asked the all-knowing Bentley, and it is indeed white) be under the dash, with a connector so that I could hook it back up? It seems like every time I get under the dash to have a look, all the panel lights fall out and I end up having to reach my not-so-delicate hand up the dash to put them back, and then I end up pulling more stuff out.
 
Not that familiar with the TR6 but... there would be a wire under the dash you could interrupt with a switch but if might be easier to do it at the coil. There it could even be done without actually cutting the original harness (if that is of importance to you). You just interrupt the ignition wire (the one to the coil, not the one from coil to distributor) and run 2 wires to your concealed toggle switch.

Of course, if you're looking for where it was done before both under dash and under bonnet are possible.
 
I don't think it's hooked up to the coil, though that still is a possibility. There is 1 solid red wire dangling under the driver's side dash that comes from the ignition that I don't know what goes to, and I think that might be it.
 
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