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To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Boot handle and lock
From: HealeyBJ7@aol.com
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:24:51 EST
Group,
I'm fitting a trunk handle and lock to a BJ8 restoration. The old one was  
trash so I went to the parts bin and found four others in various states of  
"niceness". Choosing the best, I have disassenbled it and taken a tumbler from  
another "parts bin handle". I have reworked the tumbler so that the ignition 
key  will work the mechanism. (By the way, is it correct that the ignition key 
for a  BJ8 works the boot lock? That was the case on the BJ8 I looked at but my 
BJ7 has  a different key for the ignition and boot lock. If the ignition and 
boot use the  same key, how about the doors and glove box? Back to my boot 
lock. Now I have a  nice handle and a working tumbler, but when I put them 
together the tumbler sits  too deep in the handle bezzel. I've looked at a 
total of 
six handles now and  they all have a very shallow depth for the lip of the 
bezzel. The one I'm  working on is deeper so the tumbler will be indented into 
the handle. Which  handle is correct for a BJ8?
TIA
Bob




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