New (to me) truck. Need help with passenger door lock.
 

Don't worry, I'll have pictures up soon enough, but it's a pretty run of the mill white '81 3/4ton with a 350/4speed/unknown transfer/14bolt rear.

Anyway, I'm probably going to have a lot of questions, first being, My passenger door lock won't stay unlocked when I close the door, it falls down. I fished around the bottom of the door, and found a small spring with maybe 1 or 2 coils, and hooks at 10 and 2 o' clock. Is this used to keep the lock stationary? How would I go about getting it re attached? Can you provide pictures? Please and Thank you if anyone has any answers.

Re: New (to me) truck. Need help with passenger door lock.
 

prolly easiest to disassemble the door and remove the lock and see where it sits... then try to reattach it... in all likelyhood there is a problem why it popped out but i will go in my basement later and see if i can find and photograph a passenger side door lock mechanism for you

Re: New (to me) truck. Need help with passenger door lock.
 

It all goes in the latch mechanism. The door lock just slides into a slot on the latch. You could always take both latches out of the doors and compare if you had to.