What do I need with a lever set to replace a high-security front-door entry lever style door knob?

Can you go to Home Depot and check?

Here are the installation instructions from Kwikset.
http://www.kwikset.com/Support/Faq/50160000000HiYiAAK.aspx

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Kwikset/Dorian%20-%20Entry,%20Passage,%20Privacy.pdf

@johnpowell We’re still in the great snowstorm of 2009 so not today. :-(

@jaytkay Thanks so much. Big help.

you may need to get a new set up as I’m not sure you can just get parts, and if you could, those parts may be as expensive as just starting over with a completely new lock. And use the old lock’s key to key up the new lock at the store before bringing it home. I would think the locksmith could get a new replacement lock cylinder for kwickset and fix it but apparently he cannot? It’s a really common brand though. Unless maybe he buggered up many more parts of the handset that would require total replacement. He took the parts? why? If replacing the whole unit you will need to know the “hand” of your door as it will matter since it is a lever and they are left or right specific. as in right hand or left hand door. hth.

@woodcutter It was one of the high-security types that can’t be picked. He had to use a pair of vice grips and twist it till he broke the shaft. It seems Home Depot and lots of stores sell the outer lever and key only for rekeying purposes, but I haven’t been able to find anyone selling the while set. Tha looksmith charged me $225 to break the thing on on a Sunday in a blizzard, and wanted another $300 in cash to replace it. :-(

Holy crap! seems then it would have been cheaper to break a window or something? ouch

@woodcutter I live on the third floor of a security condo. The cielings are 10 ft high so with the steps up to floor one, that’s like 48 feet up and we were in the middle of a blizzard. I don’t think breaking a window was a viable option.

that sure is a tough situation there.

Yeah, when I screw up, I go all out!

that’s the spirit!

i have no idea , but you should call locksmith company, they will help you ,

http://www.dallas-txlocksmith.com
http://www.detroit-milocksmith.com