Installing a new trunk key set. with the set I got from OPGI i cannot get them to work very well. It is wanting to bind at the far end of rotation. Is there a trick to bending the linkage so it does not bind?

 

Are you using the factory linkage or the one that came with the lock cylinder?
The one that comes with the lock seems to never work.
here is a youtube video with the same issue .

 

I no longer have the factory piece.

 

1972 parts catalog lists part number 9719105
1979 parts catalog lists part number 9614429'
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...19105&_sacat=0

 

Chuxter, the trunk lock on my 1967 442 since new always seemed to bind a little toward the far end of rotation. Sometimes I would be afraid that the key would break off. Recently I disassembled and removed it from the trunk lid and discovered that the lock cylinder was binding in the housing. A few judicial hits with a hammer put the lock cylinder "round" and it no longer binds; or maybe it was the housing out of round that I had to use the hammer on. In all honesty it was about a year ago that I was working on it.