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| | | | Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 99 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 99 | Anybody willing to share the secret to getting it off the dash. Sure doesn't look like it should be that tough. 53 Chev COE, but I think all the models are the same. Thanks in advance. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 775 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 775 | I have a 46. I think they are the same. Mine has a screw that holds a sleeve from the back inside the glove box. The sleeve is larger than the opening in the dash so it holds the lock in. You just unscrew the screw at the lock inside the glove box. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | GeoRichards,
They are not all the same, 47-55 GMC & Chevrolet truck.
I have a 54/55 GMC glovebox lock with no screw. My 54 Chevy truck locks have screws.
I'll post a picture tonight. I cannot figure how to get the lock off. Post a picture if you can.
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 775 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 775 | I added two new lock photos to photobucket. It does not sound as it will help you. If your lock face has a small hole you typicaly insert the key and a pin into lock to remove the cylinder. I forget if you lock or unlock the cylinder. My lock you remove with the screw you can see in the photo. | | | | | Joined: May 2012 Posts: 574 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2012 Posts: 574 | in my 55 2nd big bolt it doesn't have a screw, just a metal retaining "thing" that fits into the glove box door and holds the lock in place. problem is now that i got it out i can't get it all to go back together. i think i'll get one of those lock retaining things with the screw from classic parts or somewhere and forget the "thing"
1949 Dodge Coronet 1955 2nd Chevy 4400 1.5 ton 1955 2nd Chevy 3100 1/2 ton 1955 2nd Chevy 3100 1/2 ton 1957 Chevy 5400 LCF 2 ton 1966 Dodge D100 Sweptline 1968 Chevy P20 stepvan 1969 GMC LWB pickup 1972 GMC Sprint 1974 CP30 shorty bus There are three things that I've learned never discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.----Linus Van Pelt Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9  | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | I think that GeoRichards is interested in removing the entire lock assembly from the door, not just removing the lock cylinder/tumbler from the lock assembly/housing. I think I am now confronted with the same problem on a 54/55 GMC. Others have posted this question in the past. Here is a long and boring (and possibly confusing) web page with some photos: GeoRichards, is the first photo on that page similar to the back side of your lock assembly? materman, I was writing my post when you were posting. Your lock attachment sounds like mine.
Last edited by tclederman; 08/31/2012 9:22 PM. Reason: added comment about materman's pot
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