Interior lock on compact door handle?

[Ian]

I'm about to install the new exterior door handle for our '66 Compact with a new lockset, but no matter what I do to the interior mechanism I can't get it to lock from the inside.

There is a small tab that looks like it should just be flipped up to lock the door, but ours doesn't do anything.

Can someone with a Compact let me know how to lock the door from the inside? We can't take her for her maiden voyage if I can't lock the door at night.

Thanks,
Ian

[61shastacompact]

Does your inside portion of the latch look like this?

[harrison429]

yeah, when you push that button it should lock the handle in place...trust me DO NOT close the door unless you are inside or else have a 6 year old ready to crawl through the cargo door for unlocking the door and reentry...the key WILL NOT open the door with said button pushed. (please don't ask how i know this and thankfully i have a 6 year old nephew

[Ian]

Aha, that button is missing on ours. I have the top lever, and have no idea what it does. But the bottom button is broken off. Looks like I'm putting in another order to VTS!

Thanks guys!