Door handles

[sewlow]

Everything old is new again! Check what the Hot-Rod guys do for when they have no outer handles. Some of those guys are engineering geniuses. The simplest method is always the best.

 

[dkennedy]

I used to run a warehouse for a big pipe , valve, and fitting company so I spent a lot of late nights there working on stuff. One night I was there by myself and it was getting close to midnight so I was getting my stuff ready to go and I couldn't find my car keys anywhere. I forget what the exact reasoning was, but I had convinced myself that my keys had fallen out of my back pocket (that's where I usually carried them) and into the toilet either before or after I was taking a ... well, you know what I'm saying... and I had flushed them.

After reaching down in the toilet as far as my arm would go with zero results I went down to the basement and spent a couple of hours taking the 4" cast iron pipe loose at various locations and shining a flashlight through the pipe trying to locate the keys. I finally gave up and called a locksmith and after he arrived it took him about 5 minutes to cut me a key and about 5 seconds to put my $80 in his wallet. The next morning one of my employees found my keys sitting on a shelf exactly where I left them.

 

[bigblue24]

I used to run a warehouse for a big pipe , valve, and fitting company so I spent a lot of late nights there working on stuff. One night I was there by myself and it was getting close to midnight so I was getting my stuff ready to go and I couldn't find my car keys anywhere. I forget what the exact reasoning was, but I had convinced myself that my keys had fallen out of my back pocket (that's where I usually carried them) and into the toilet either before or after I was taking a ... well, you know what I'm saying... and I had flushed them.

After reaching down in the toilet as far as my arm would go with zero results I went down to the basement and spent a couple of hours taking the 4" cast iron pipe loose at various locations and shining a flashlight through the pipe trying to locate the keys. I finally gave up and called a locksmith and after he arrived it took him about 5 minutes to cut me a key and about 5 seconds to put my $80 in his wallet. The next morning one of my employees found my keys sitting on a shelf exactly where I left them.

Lol that had to suck man

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[sewlow]

Oh man!

 

[skylark]

LOL!!! Noooo. First time I locked the keys in my truck (Yea, I've done it since! But I'm GOOD at getting into it now!) it took me & the ole man, a 40 year mechanic, a good couple hours to figure out a method that didn't involve a brick, or a crowbar, or any other means of destruction that were getting closer & closer to hand by the minute!

I have an air jack from Access tools inc. It works awesome and I've never had a problem getting into anything with it.
http://www.hightechtools.com/catalog.php?catid=1&objectid=16&productid=16

 

[sewlow]

I have an air jack from Access tools inc. It works awesome and I've never had a problem getting into anything with it.
http://www.hightechtools.com/catalog.php?catid=1&objectid=16&productid=16

Never seen those before. Pretty cool! And reasonably priced. too! Thanks!

 

[skylark]

Easy to use too. Just shove the jack in the window frame and use a wedge or 2 and you can remove the jack and easily get to an inside lock. The only exceptions are cars like the new camaros where the window goes up into a channel after you close the door.

 

[1badgmc]

Since it's a Tahoe, you can go ahead and go keyless on both front door handles. You still have a back-up plan with the keyed handle on your cargo doors.

 

[supertrucker1978]

My '53 Olds hot rod project has shaved door handles and I plan on using a manual choke cable ran from the engine bay to the door latch for a back up if theres a power loss or short. I know That would be hard on our trucks because of hood latch but as long as there is no kinks in the cable anywhere you could run it to the inside of a fenderwell or something.

 

[bigblue24]

Yea in gonna do that as well im also gonna fix the rear barn door key lock so maybe I will never have to use my emergency cable. And another question will the lock cylinder on my passenger front door work in my rear barn door? Because I was just gonna move it to the back incase of lockout

Sent standing on the roof