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Toby Hines · 06-22-2011, 07:59 AM

Are all the locks from the same year truck? Because GM used different key ways. OEM GM and most aftermarket copies keys are stamped with a letter designating the keyway. A/B- C/D- E/H- J/K. Now if you just lost your key for your doors you can just take one door lock down to your local Locksmith and have a new key made to it. Briggs and Stratton ( now Strat-Tec) made these OEM replacements and you can actually order thru a dealer or Lockshop,Un Coded and Un Restricted keyway locks meaning the Keyway will accept all the GM single sided keyways and you can get them rekeyed to your Ing. key so you only have one key for everything. This set up is for Fleet type keying of vehicles. I use to charge 10 bucks to combinate GM locks. I personally like the one key setup. If your door locks came from different year trucks you will most likely have different keyways and you will end up with different keys for your doors.

06-22-2011, 07:59 AM	#3
Toby Hines Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Titusville Fl. Posts: 47	Re: rekey lock cylinders, possible? Are all the locks from the same year truck? Because GM used different key ways. OEM GM and most aftermarket copies keys are stamped with a letter designating the keyway. A/B- C/D- E/H- J/K. Now if you just lost your key for your doors you can just take one door lock down to your local Locksmith and have a new key made to it. Briggs and Stratton ( now Strat-Tec) made these OEM replacements and you can actually order thru a dealer or Lockshop,Un Coded and Un Restricted keyway locks meaning the Keyway will accept all the GM single sided keyways and you can get them rekeyed to your Ing. key so you only have one key for everything. This set up is for Fleet type keying of vehicles. I use to charge 10 bucks to combinate GM locks. I personally like the one key setup. If your door locks came from different year trucks you will most likely have different keyways and you will end up with different keys for your doors.