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Originally Posted by mr48chev

They never sold a 47-51 with a drivers side outside door lock is the reason for that. I'm not even sure if a stock lock is set up so one can be added.

I know it wasn't a stock thing back then, But I wanted to change that.
The old stock latches I had were very, very worn out. Disassembled both old latches. Saw the differences between the two. Tore the new replacement drivers latch apart and realized the spot on the passenger latch that operates the locking mechanism has a vacancy on the replacement drivers latch. Used the old passenger arm to modify. Had to extend the heigth of the hold down bracket to accept the new lock arm. 180 reverse the arm and install into new drivers guts. The key lock blade slides into the drivers latch, and it operates just like passenger side. One side lock cover has to drop down, the other lift up.