Stripping Door Locks

[morticiaskeeper]

Has anyone had any success stripping the door lock central locking mechanism?

 

This particular door has a mind of it's own, sometimes it locks, sometimes it doesn't.

 

Stripped the door down tonight and held the lock in my hand while watching the mechanism, it seemd as if the central locking actuator wouldn't quite push far enough.

 

Because it couldn't sense that it was locked, it has another go, after a couple of attempts, it normally locks, but then won't unlock. Looking inside the mechanism, the sensor switches aren't reached, but is this because the lock won't let it, or because the motor mechanism is U/S?

 

Putting it back together for use unplugged, we found that it took a good tug of the interior handle to make it resond to even the exterior handle, so is it a bowden cable problem? Much cheaper if it is.

 

Anybody been through the same as me? let me learn from your mistakes :D

 

As a matter of interest, when it did it's usual engine dying in the wet on right hand corners, the AA man fired it up and told me that I had NGK plugs, just by listening. If you have NGK, tighten them down, the copper washer squashes down too much and the plug comes loose. This has been a public service announcement. :D