Passenger door key lock

[bkahler]

I'm trying to figure just how the key lock mechanism works on the passenger door.  If you look at the attached picture you can see I have the square shaft of the key lock properly inserted in the lock mechanism.  However, I can't seem to get the key to actually do anything.  I can rotate the key almost 360 degrees, but I always have to rotate they key back to where I started to be able to remove the key from the lock.  No matter how much fiddling with I do I can't seem to get the locking mechanism to work. 

 

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if the mechanism is broken somewhere.

 

Help

 

[Young Ed]

Sounds like you have the lock clocked wrong in the latch.

[bkahler]

26 minutes ago, Young Ed said:

Sounds like you have the lock clocked wrong in the latch.

 

I didn't realize the key locks were supposed to be oriented a certain way.  That helps a lot, thanks.  That's something the manual doesn't cover at all.   Earlier I had pulled the key lock out and brought it up to the house and I started tinkering with it.  It turns out I can turn the lock fully clockwise and pull the key and vise versa I can rotate it fully counter clockwise and pull the key.  The issue in the rotation is in one direction it is harder to pull the key out, and at the time I was trying to be careful and not force things. 

 

Tomorrow I'll squirt some graphite into the lock, just in case, and re-install again.