adding remote locking

[Roa, Greg]

Seriously, I would consider heading to a Circuit City, or other alarm place, if you have a remote system you are using.  The actuators they have there are made for doing exactly what you want, they have a nice little coupler to hook onto the lock rod, and they are pretty cheap.  Mine was under $30, made by DEI, and works very well.
I would think it would be an awful lot easier than re-engineering the vacuum system.

Good Luck!
Greg Roa
Cincinnati, OH
86' 4kcsq
93' 90 CS
83' 944


-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Swanson [mailto:mswanson at mswanson.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:06 AM
To: Roa, Greg; quattro at audifans.com; David.Ullrich at ferguson.com
Subject: Re: adding remote locking


> Sure.   By far the easiest way for me to do it, was to add either an alarm
> or a remote locking switch that has relays built into it for a lock
> actuator.  Then, purchase a lock actuator for about $25-$30 at the local
> Circuit City or other electronics store of choice. Wire the actuator in,
> and hook it's rod up to the lock pin rod.  Then, when you hit your remote,
> the actuator pulls or pushes on the lock pin, just like you were sitting in
> the car and doing it yourself. Problem with trying to do it electrically,
> is that there is no existing actuator in the driver's side door (at least
> on the 4kq).  There is a vacuum switch type thingy, but it senses the
> position of the lock, and activates the central vacuum pump.

I just found this out the hard way last night.  It didn't occur to me that
the lock rod in the drivers door would not be actuated by vacuum.  I think
what I'm going to do is either try to fit an actuator from a 90 in there or
install a slave actuator like the ones in the other doors in there to
push/pull on the existing rod.


Later

-Marc-
87 4ktq
88 90q