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Some of you may know I've had some trouble with door seals and keeping the doors closed and flush. Thought I had it resolved, but still having issues with the driver's side.
I think the striker (on the post) moves a little, so I am going to try to put large washers on the backside to hold it in place.
More importantly, the NOS (but granted a little surface rust) door handle's latch I think is the problem. Unlike the passenger side, when you push the latch closed with your finger, it does not make the "snap" sound as it clicks into the locked closed position.....it keeps wanting to push back out and, no matter what I do, it will not snap tight. I suppose this explains why the door latch, when engaging the striker on the post, keeps seemingly pushing the door back out. Oh, also, when holding the latch in the closed position firmly with my finger, the lock does not work either, so pretty sure it's the problem.
Tried WD40 squirted in there to no avail. So, before I buy another one (brand new this time), is there a way to dismantle them? I tried that on one of the olds ones I had that also didn't work, and after drilling out the "studs" holding the two door latch halves together, reassembly seemed impossible.
Another note, here's a cool ad I found for a 1972 Series III. You have to play around with it as it is actually a newspaper on google from 1972....
Julian
Some of you may know I've had some trouble with door seals and keeping the doors closed and flush. Thought I had it resolved, but still having issues with the driver's side.
I think the striker (on the post) moves a little, so I am going to try to put large washers on the backside to hold it in place.
More importantly, the NOS (but granted a little surface rust) door handle's latch I think is the problem. Unlike the passenger side, when you push the latch closed with your finger, it does not make the "snap" sound as it clicks into the locked closed position.....it keeps wanting to push back out and, no matter what I do, it will not snap tight. I suppose this explains why the door latch, when engaging the striker on the post, keeps seemingly pushing the door back out. Oh, also, when holding the latch in the closed position firmly with my finger, the lock does not work either, so pretty sure it's the problem.
Tried WD40 squirted in there to no avail. So, before I buy another one (brand new this time), is there a way to dismantle them? I tried that on one of the olds ones I had that also didn't work, and after drilling out the "studs" holding the two door latch halves together, reassembly seemed impossible.
Another note, here's a cool ad I found for a 1972 Series III. You have to play around with it as it is actually a newspaper on google from 1972....
Julian
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