traditional shaved door locks/how to get in

so i have a 63 chevy long bed and i want to take the lock off so i can have a hidden lock to get in... but what could work? maby a coat hanger out the bottom of the door to the cab?

 

i plan on keeping just the door handles no locks

 

Use a choke cable stuck out into the fender well. Actually shaved handles used to get run that way as well.

I used to shave the handles and leave the door lock and then use the key to activate the door latch. But that is a different story all together isn't it.

 

Use a couple of relays, an electric locking mechanism (like advertised in Street Rodder mag) and a remote...let electronics do your work. Simply push the button to unlock, push the button to lock...

But IF you're taking off the locks, why don't you remove the door handles as well...seems to me like a strange way to clean up the body of a truck...

R-

 

Aside from that he is only removing one lock on a '63 Chebby truck.

 

Traditional way is to use solenoids. HRP

 

so with a choke cable i can attatch it to the lock so my door could pop open?

 

I have shaved door handles on my '52 Chevy running Auto-locs plus a cable under the hood in case the Auto-loc fails, which it did on the drivers door.

 

Gents- I believe that the OP is in fact asking how to shave his *handles* and how shaved door handles "work"...

 

reach in thru the vent window

 

Lol- that's exactly what I do right now... pulled door handles eos ago, but I've not gotten to the body work (working on mechanicals) so to open them up I reach in.

You would think I'd put them back already, eh?

 

Yep
You can buy a door popper or make one out of a valve spring from an old worn out lawn mower motor, it goes in the door jam, when you pull the cable it disengages the latch and the spring makes the door pop open.

 

I used door handle springs as door poppers. Actually years ago when I lived in Orange I had a solenoid. It was on a 30 amp circuit and I had a button under the hood. Now that I live in Alabama I used the vent window.

 

i would say TRADITIONAL would be choke cables and such. my model a coupe has door handles but it had bear claws and the stock handles i havnt got to work with those yet so my doors have a long peice of welding rod attached to the latch and go down thru the door drain whole.no one has figured out how to open the doors unless i show them

 

can you show me a pic of where your welding rod runs throught the drain?

 

i just want to get an idea of how a traditional set up like so would look

 

If your wanting to just get rid of the lock use a keyles entry kit. Just a lock and unlock kit. If you want to get rid of the handle, I used the same style kit. With actuators not selonoids. Then separated the channels from lock/unlock to driver/passenger. And the throttle cable back up isn't a bad idea either