90 Jetta Carat Drivers Door Handle

Bernd Felsche wrote:

>
> Once you've gone as far as extracting the lock cylinders, it's not
> a big deal to match the locks to the original keys.
>
> I've discovered that I'd already preserved a copy of my article for
> "posterity" in my www-trove at
> http://Bernd.Felsche.org/tech/Swap_Lock_Tumblers
>

Thanks, it's saved here as well, and I enjoyed your site as well.

Les

Irv > wrote:
>Bernd Felsche wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> Bernd > wrote:

>>>> You can use the old lock cylinders in the new handles.
>>
>>> If you reuse the lock cylinder, note that you want to insert
>>> the old key in the old lock first. That keeps the "lock plates" in
>>> their retracted position and prevents them from flying all over the
>>> place when you remove the cylinder.
>>
>>> Once the key is in, remove the screw on the end of the lock
>>> cylinder and transfer the cylinder to the new handle. Make sure to
>>> get the funky round spring and the forked piece in the correct
>>> position (note their positions before disassembling).
>>
>> I posted a lengthy article on the process of swapping lock plates to
>> new cylinders in 1993. Perhaps it'll be of some use.
>> >
>>
>> Hopefully you can find a copy of it somewhere online. Else I'll have
>> to fetch some coal and stoke the boiler to start an old computer.

>Thanks, yes I figure I'll take the old one apart first and if there's
>no disaster I'll transfer, otherwise I'll have an extra key on my keyring.

Once you've gone as far as extracting the lock cylinders, it's not
a big deal to match the locks to the original keys.

I've discovered that I'd already preserved a copy of my article for
"posterity" in my www-trove at
http://Bernd.Felsche.org/tech/Swap_Lock_Tumblers

(None of the contact info in the preserved article works.)

>If my son gets a VW that will be 4 in the immediate family.
>None known of in the extended family, but then we don't keep in
>touch.
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