Fellow Bolters;
What is your experience with the 63-66 body style door locks? From what I understand, there is the inside lock (push the handle into the down position) and then the external lock (on the door handle button that uses the key). Each one is separate such that if you lock the inside door lock and then close the door, the door is locked for good unless opened again from the inside.
Is there a method to just override the inside door lock so that it cannot be used at all? The driver side latch of my '64 is so worn out that the door locks itself from the inside every time you close it. The handle literally falls into the lock position even when gently released. My passenger side still has the "click" that requires the lever to be pushed down to the lock position, but, if you pull up to open the door, and then release it from its upper position, the return spring slams it back down and all the way into the lock position.
After being locked out of my truck again yesterday I am about fed up with the locks and don't even view them as remotely necessary. Its a 2 ton farm truck, anyone who wants to try to steal it wont even know how to drive it.
Additionally, and maybe not appropriate to answer via public forum, but any tips on getting inside if locked out? Both times I have been lucky and my passenger window was cracked. Had it not been, I have zero clue how I would have gotten in. The roof overlap and solid steel doors mean my typical protocols I use on the newer trucks don't work. I am happy to have any discussion on this via PM for obvious reasons.
Appreciate any insight you may have to the door locks. It could be that mine are simply all messed up.
