Originally Posted By: tomcat27
the "left to right" part moves fine. I disconnected the silver rod on purpose. the actual latch is at the bottom behind the black metal. the silver rode moves up and down (well, at least it is supposed to...) I've tried locking pliers on it; and plenty of PB blaster. I will wait until tomorrow for the blaster to work - if it still does not move, I will start cutting metal.
I got into this with my old Tracker and I just cut the door off, kept the lock cylinder and got a new door from the wreckers. I never ended up swapping the lock cylinder anyways... A matching door was $100 and I figured a new latch would be near that or more.