'36 Glove Box Lock Questions

[VeryTangled]

1936 Open car, we're putting in a glove box lock. The lock is installed in the door. The tang of the lock is not going into the slot of the dashboard. The tang does not want to go all the way vertical, as it has to, to lock the door because the tang is not engaging the slot in the dash.

Driver side is on the left of the first two photos and on the right of the last two. Photos show the door with the lock in both the open (first photo) and locked positions (second photo). The last two photos are taken in self-timer mode with the camera inside the glove box, and show the tang not going into the slot. (We figured a way to see something we couldn't see!!)

In the third picture, the door is being pressed closed as far as possible. In the fourth picture you can see a scratch mark where the tang is making contact with the dash, for this one I'm _not_ holding the door closed, that's why the tang is able to go vertical. As it is now, the tang points towards the passenger side when the lock is open.

We are wondering if the last person to work on the lock assembled it with the tang 180 degrees out of position. It looks like the tang should be rotating up from the opposite end, from the drivers side of the slot.

Questions...

We are not sure which direction the tang of the lock should face when the lock is open, should it point towards the passengers side or the drivers?

Can anyone check to see which way their tang faces when the lock is open?

Thanks in advance for your help.

-VeryTangled/Jeff