Hatch Lock Broken Options

[evanthebruin]

Hi Everybody, this is my first post.

I picked up a '97 GT a few weeks ago. I love it. It has 170K on the clock but is pretty damn clean and runs well. When I bought the car, everything worked on it but I've run into my first problem. Yesterday I put my key into the hatch lock cylinder and jiggled it around to pop the hatch. The key turned 90 degrees CCW and kinda just didn't feel right. The key came out but now the cylinder is stuck in that position and I can't pop the hatch. I can't pop it from the driver's seat either. When I pull the lever it just feels like it's not catching anything. I'm assuming something's loose in the hatch mechanism or something but I haven't had time to crawl back there and check it out yet. Anybody have this problem before? Thanks for your help.

[cjh4l22]

If you take apart the plastic cover in the very rear in the trunk, you will see the system. I think you can unhatch the mechanism that is connected to the cylinder.

i know what your talking about but not sure you understand what we're thinking. its more like the cylinder is stuck... because i've had the problem you are describing and it was fixed rather easily.