Doors
Thread Starter
|
New User
Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 12
Likes: 0
Doors
New to this forum but have used it from time to time lately.
Bought and started a 1953 F100 project that I predict will take me about 3 years due to slow funding. Taking it down to the frame. It came with a solid 429 big block and a C6 that I plan to keep.
So I noticed something strange this weekend during tear down. The passenger side door has a lock below the handle but the driverside does not and never has? No slot for the lock retaining clip or evidence of the hole in the door face being filled.... Different years?
Regardless I am not sure how to approach locks for this truck....thoughts?
Bought and started a 1953 F100 project that I predict will take me about 3 years due to slow funding. Taking it down to the frame. It came with a solid 429 big block and a C6 that I plan to keep.
So I noticed something strange this weekend during tear down. The passenger side door has a lock below the handle but the driverside does not and never has? No slot for the lock retaining clip or evidence of the hole in the door face being filled.... Different years?
Regardless I am not sure how to approach locks for this truck....thoughts?
Fleet Owner
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 25,406
Likes: 5,416
From: Central PA
New to this forum but have used it from time to time lately.
So I noticed something strange this weekend during tear down. The passenger side door has a lock below the handle but the driverside does not and never has? No slot for the lock retaining clip or evidence of the hole in the door face being filled.... Different years?
?
So I noticed something strange this weekend during tear down. The passenger side door has a lock below the handle but the driverside does not and never has? No slot for the lock retaining clip or evidence of the hole in the door face being filled.... Different years?
?
welcome to FTE! And show us your truck (pics).
Hotshot
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 15,882
Likes: 88
From: Durham NC
This may take it from the #2 question to the #1 question!
These trucks came with a pass side outside door lock only, except for the custom (55, 56) or Deluxe (53, 54) cabs. This was a safety as well as cost saving feature. Most parking in the 50s was parallel to the curb, you were not supposed to exit or enter from the traffic side (even illegal in some jurisdictions). Mid Fifty as well as others sell a retrofit drivers side exterior door lock.
These trucks came with a pass side outside door lock only, except for the custom (55, 56) or Deluxe (53, 54) cabs. This was a safety as well as cost saving feature. Most parking in the 50s was parallel to the curb, you were not supposed to exit or enter from the traffic side (even illegal in some jurisdictions). Mid Fifty as well as others sell a retrofit drivers side exterior door lock.
Hotshot
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 15,882
Likes: 88
From: Durham NC
Mid Fifty part #81136 pg. 90 of 2014 catalog. You will also need lock cylinder(s) 3 pcs # 1130-3PC if you want 1 key, 2 cylinders keyed alike #1130-2D to have doors w/1key, ign with another, single cylinder #1131-D if you don't mind doors not keyed alike or if you have an old school locksmith nearby that can rekey cylinder to what you have.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
MLBaranowski
1948 - 1956 F1, F100 & Larger F-Series Trucks
24
Nov 20, 2014 11:03 AM
