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Photos speak more than words.
Here are photos I took of the passenger and driver sides of the mechanism.
Some photos have an electrical connection attached to the passenger side (not sure what that does?!?) and some have it removed for easier finger access to linkages.
On the driver side I can see the plastic grommet where I presume the vacuum actuator would snap in (from the top?). It was disconnected on my car. I took a photo of the actuator itself.
Anyway, I liberally sprayed in there with PB blaster, and the key seems to move linkages as it should (?), but the locked clasp at the bottom will not budged from its snapped shut position.
I took the bolts off that secure the mechanism to the sheet metal, but it doesn't look like an easy removal (tight space in there) so I bolted it back in until I could figure if I should remove it and properly inspect and reverse-engineer on my bench.
Any words of advice would be welcome of course, in how to unlock that bottom piece (clasp). Thanks
If not obvious: photo 1 from driver side, the rest are passenger side
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1983 300TD 240K - 1982 240D 215K - 1996 Dodge Cummins 70K 
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