A couple of years ago, I had a similar problem with the driver's side door on my '79 Bus. I really had to turn the key hard to get it to pop up the lock button. Sometimes I would have to turn it clockwise and then counter-clockwise until it popped up. The problem got worse and worse. Finally, I carefully popped the inside door paneling snap things out of their holes, one by one, and removed the window crank, inside door handle hardware, etc. I really couldn't get to the guts of the lock mechanism easily, so, out of frustration, I just plugged the little red hose into the WD-40 nozzle and sprayed all up inside there, under the door lock pop-up button. It worked! The lock popped up and down like the day it rolled off the showroom floor. I then inserted the red hose into each keyhole on the Bus and sprayed, following that with a good dose of powdered graphite lock lubricant. No lock problems since. Cheese
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