Hey Dake, 

Is the lever on the door handle itself stuck in the pulled back position?  If so, that will stop the lock mechanism from operating.  You need to use a small screwdriver to pull the lever back out, then the lock should operate.

I just had one here that had that problem.

Cheers, 

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Dan N
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 12:23 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: front door lock stuck

as it now you have... from the inside remove the upper left corner of the panel enoguh to get your in it then pull the the plunger rod up...

or slim-jim it but I don't know how to do it...

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:15 PM, KIM BRENNAN <kimbrennan@mac.com> wrote:

> If the plunger won t budge you ve got a problem. The normal issue is 
> that the lock gets dirty. This can be resolved by removing the outside 
> handle, but this will require the door to be open as you need to 
> remove a couple of screws that are hidden by the rubber door gasket.
>
> Then you can disassemble the door lock mech and clean, just be very 
> careful if you remove the brass inserts, and make a note which slots 
> they go in.
>
>
> > On Jul 7, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Dake Collins <wuwe423@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> >	
> > My drivers side door ( 86 Westy) is locked; the key won t turn the
> tumbler and the plunger won t budge. Any ideas on how to resolve this 
> problem?
> > thanks.
>