Glove Box Latch

[RAT ROD AL]

What is the trick to taking apart and putting one back together ?
I finally got one apart, can't get it back together and can't get another one part to mess it up !!!
HELP

 

[CFD244]

So you know about the tab if you got it apart (opposite side as the latch).......Don't forget to have the latch in the closed position when you try to put it back together (or take it apart). That's the step I forgot......LOL Good Luck

Great thread on FABO with pictures.

 

[str12-340]

Don't forget to have the latch in the closed position when you try to put it back together

to be clear the part that wraps around the horseshoe shaped strike needs to be in the position that mimics being wrapped around the strike - the "closed" position.

 

[RAT ROD AL]

I can get it back in , but it doesn't lock back in place. Just pulls back out.

 

[str12-340]

I'm looking at a 1970 Dart FSM which is less than helpful, but one thing it is clear about is that the key has to be lock to get it back in
" (2) Insert the lock and key into the latch through the glove box face.
(3) Hold cylinder in position and remove key."

Ok I just spent a half hour with three glove box locks - orient inner cylinder so that the parts that are sprung toward the outside of the shaft to the left as you would see it sitting in the car. If you push the key in all the way all the bits will go in except the one closest to the knob - this is your problem. pull the key out, push the bit nearest the knob in with your finger and then push the key back in - all the bits should stay in. Push the inner shaft into the outer shaft and pull the key out. That one bit should spring out and hold the inner shaft in the outer shaft.

What I can't figure out is how to get that bit pushed in while it is in the outer shaft!!! How did you get it apart to start with???

 

[RAT ROD AL]

I'm looking at a 1970 Dart FSM which is less than helpful, but one thing it is clear about is that the key has to be lock to get it back in
" (2) Insert the lock and key into the latch through the glove box face.
(3) Hold cylinder in position and remove key."

Ok I just spent a half hour with three glove box locks - orient inner cylinder so that the parts that are sprung toward the outside of the shaft to the left as you would see it sitting in the car. If you push the key in all the way all the bits will go in except the one closest to the knob - this is your problem. pull the key out, push the bit nearest the knob in with your finger and then push the key back in - all the bits should stay in. Push the inner shaft into the outer shaft and pull the key out. That one bit should spring out and hold the inner shaft in the outer shaft.

What I can't figure out is how to get that bit pushed in while it is in the outer shaft!!! How did you get it apart to start with???

I really don't remember how I got it apart. I think I had to push a pocket screw driver in one of the little holes in the outer housing and pull the inner part out by the knob. I can get it back in , but it looks like the last little flat spring loaded pin is not in side the housing. The one I have apart, I don't have a key for. Maybe that's the problem. So I tried to take both the others apart and they won't. Can't remember exactly how I got the 1st one apart.

 

[CFD244]

You compress the little flat pin through the access hole to take them apart......Then, as you said, the pin is not inside the housing when you try to put them back together......You do not use the little hole to compress the pin to put them back together, but rather, compress the pin by using the tool beyond the end of the housing where the pin is hanging up.