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I just found something on my '46 Panel that I just now noticed and thats not right. The door on the drivers side has a lock with the handle on the inside and the pass side has nothing, no lock handle or lock. Do I have two different year doors on there?
Also I'm looking for a couple of hens teeth, just kidding, but I am looking for two outer door handles with the lock cylinders in them if anyone knows where I can still find them.
Thanks

My unmodified '53 Suburban has no key lock on the driver's door, only on the passenger side; this was the way they all were built. (I'm pretty sure!) You can lock the driver's door on the inside by pushing the handle forward.

-John

Look fellas, you're supposed to install the remote lock thingys all the way around.

A 1942-46 (really till 1951) the lock was in the passengers side door and at least from 1934 - 41 the lock was in the passengers side handle (handle changes in 1940)

handles and lock cylinders are available at any of the vendors, and you can get 2 lock cylinders keyed the same

Bill

i bought a kit from "the truck shop"for my 64 that included both door locks,glovebox lock,and ignition key cylinder.

If memory serves me right, you have the correct doors. The handle lock configuration is: PASSENGER DOOR HAS OUTSIDE LOCK (AND NO INTERIOR LOCK?), DRIVERS SIDE HAS INTERIOR LOCK ONLY. It looks like someone swapped the outside door handles. You can install a locking door handle on your passenger side too.

As far as correct doors, the truck doors are different than the suburban/panel/canopy express doors. There is a matching reveal at the top of the panel doors that does not exist on the truck doors.

Thanks George, All the handles I have do not have any locks in them at all, I've got 4 of them. So if I'm understanding this right the passenger door locks with the outer handle only and the drivers door locks with both the outer handle and inside lock? Either way I would like to find some handles with locks in them but Carters and Chevy's of the 40's don't carry them any more.

whichever handle has the lock in it is the one that locks the handle, and that was originally the passengers door, so the drivers door had to have the lock from the inside - folks didn't lock the doors when they were driving back then

looks like none of the vendors have the locking handle for 41-46 anymore, so you're stuck with finding a used one

Bill

I believe the reason that the Passenger door had the outside key lock and not he drivers door was , at that time it was customary that the driver would slide across the seat and exit the car from the passenger side so no one got out of the car on the drivers side. This was a safety factor to keep people from exiting the car into the on coming traffic.If you'll remember GM was possibly still thinking of a way to limit the number of people exiting the vehicle on the driver side when they offered the first 4-door suburbans( actually 3 doors) to the public.