How Stiff is Your Thing? Options

[bkrantz]

Mine is too stiff, I think. Oh, the thing I mean is the internal door latch mechanism. And the part that seems stiff is the locking function.

In case your never spent any intimate time with the mechanism, the locking function is done by a stamped plate that shifts up (to lock) and down (to unlock). I continue to have problems unlocking the doors with keys, even after Curt did his magic on the cylinders.

Since the up-down shift of the locking plate is accomplished by the little lever on the internal end of the cylinder, as twisted by the key, so it would seem to be better if the plate shifted without much resistance.

Oh, and I have tried some different lubes.

[bkrantz]

Now the locking plate and tab (red arrow) can shift without moving the pivot. This cut the resistance in shifting the plate by more than half, and that's without the rod and linkage to the internal lock button.