How To Replace Cylinder Door Lock

Then pull the cylinder out of the door from the outside pushing from the inside if needed.

How to replace cylinder door lock.

Unscrew the main screw red dot place the key inside the cylinder and turn it to the left or right to make sure that the carrier is parallel with the cylinder. Push the cylinder out of the lock maybe you need to push hard. With a barrel lock it s the cylinder that allows the locking and unlocking of a door. This is the easiest way to rekey your door if you re giving the cylin.

Unlock the door where you will be replacing the door lock cylinder using your key or the inside door lock. Place the nuts and bolts aside. The one presented here is a. How to replace a car door lock cylinder.

Locate the lock cylinder on the interior face of the door. Use the flat head screwdriver to turn the spindle in the center of the door lock cylinder counterclockwise until it stops. Insert a flatheaded screwdriver into the spindle housing hole. First slide your hand up to the back of the cylinder and use a pair of needle nose pliers to pull off the bracket clip holding the door lock cylinder in place.

There are several types of cylinder locks. Remove the nuts and bolts securing the lock bars to the cylinder with a wrench. Remove the old cylinder from your door. This is a video on how to replace the key cylinder in a commercial storefront door.

At this point the square tab on the spindle is aligned with the square. Unscrew the door lock indicator used to lock or unlock door manually next to the window.