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Bumpyroad
Oct 24, 2013Explorer
reddwar wrote:
Ever had a dead bolt break on your rig? We did. When the bead bolt breaks the spring will slam the dead bolt locked. You can't unlock your door, just glad we had two doors on that rig. There were several of us looking at it trying to get it unlocked. With the cover off & he only thing we could come up with is drill the bolt in half, had to drill real slow as it was hard steel took several bits & long time. Any way you do not want your bolt to break. as you can't get in or out the door. Our rig today only has one door & I am getting to old to go out the window.
the dead bolt lock on my Chieftain would not lock from the outside. worked fine on the inside. whenever I left for the day with an audience I would go through the motions, put key in lock, act like I was twisting it, etc. ;)
bumpy
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