Gas Tank Cap / Latch Corrosion, Cleaning, and Modification

[VirginiaJim]

Wasn't there a tutorial on that?  Me memory ain't as good as it used to be.

[Big Red]

Even if there isn't, I've been thinking about this mod. I may take mine apart to do the mod and then see how the lock comes out.

[maxtog]

Wasn't there a tutorial on that?  Me memory ain't as good as it used to be.

I was the one who posted the tutorial on the latch mod.  But not about the cylinder.  I searched for hours trying to find anything anywhere about how it is done.  Nada.

[maxtog]

Even if there isn't, I've been thinking about this mod. I may take mine apart to do the mod and then see how the lock comes out.

The lack/key removal modification doesn't require removing the cylinder, or disassembling anything except the latch part.  My instructions warn pretty specifically not to allow all the rest of the stuff to come off, lest you will have a nightmare.

But I will carefully disassemble the new one and provide photos of what I find.

[Big Red]

I don't mind tearing things apart. Locks are one of my (too) many hobbies.

[maxtog]

This thread has been around coming on 7 years now.  And I like thread reuse.  But I spent a significant amount of time creating some general gas-cap replacement instructions and placed that in a different thread here:  http://zggtr.org/index.php?topic=25405.0  since it is a different topic flavor and also so the main new material will be at the top.

This thread is still perfectly fine for discussion of the corrosion issues, latch "no key to close" modification, etc.