Switching lock barrel in bootlid

[hecate]

I went to switch over bootlids on my crown, expecting the lock barrel to unbolt along with the catch mechanism. No such luck. Can anyone provide any helpful ideas for getting the barrel out? I don't have the key for the second bootlid and really want to switch it over.

[oldcorollas]

err.. does it have a spring clip holding it in like most locks? that you slide to one side to get it ou?

[hecate]

The lock on the 'new' lid has nothing protruding from it except the bit which turns to activate the catch when you turn the key. The area's sort of sealed off, different to the 'old' lid. On the old lid there's the actual barrel and then there's what seems to be the restraint, but I can't get it to release. This is probably more to my ineptitude. At this stage, I'm more concerned with how to get the barrel out of the 'new' lid though, then I can work out how to get it out of the 'old' lid and switch it across.

[lexsmaz]

As oldcorollas said there should be a forked clip on the inside of the boot lid, which will hold the barrell in, spray some CRC on the clip & it should just slide sideways ..

[oldcorollas]

can you take a pic?
corroded clips often need the help of pliers...
or a strip of 3-4mm steel with a hacksaw blade cut in it to slide the turned up bit of the spring steel slip into..then pull

there has to be some access, otherwise the lock could not be installed in the first place. it is possible somoene plated over it, with the lock in place, but there must be some access somehow?

these things.. or similar

[hecate]

I'll get some pics of the 'old' one, it doesn't have a clip like that, the new one does though. Having a picture of what it looks like internally is useful, thanks oc