Door Handle
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Melting Slicks
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Door Handle
Stuck at work also waiting on parts. Thinking about how to tackle my repair adjustment. Door is not opening from outside the rod coming from the exterior handle seems to not be pushing the latch far enough down. If I hold the latch down and push a little more on the latch tab it pops. I'm thinking lengthen the rod would this be correct? To much time on my hands
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YES...but be CAREFUL...because you can lengthen this rod TOO MUCH...and when you do that...that extra length is now pushing on the arm of the latch mechanism..and what happens ( or can happen) is that when you go to LOCK the door...you will be able to LOCK it...BUT you will not be able to UNLOCK it or it will have a bad bind in it when you try to do so.
ALSO....what often times is missing is the very special clip that is at the door handle and the rod you are going to adjust. MOST people put it on INCORRECTLY...and what happens is that the rod can begin to work its way through the hole in the handle and the rod is now seeming to be out of adjustment...but it is this special clip is NOT installed correctly or missing.
Here is that clip
http://www.parts123.com/parts123/yb....5Z5Z50000036b#
DUB
ALSO....what often times is missing is the very special clip that is at the door handle and the rod you are going to adjust. MOST people put it on INCORRECTLY...and what happens is that the rod can begin to work its way through the hole in the handle and the rod is now seeming to be out of adjustment...but it is this special clip is NOT installed correctly or missing.
Here is that clip
http://www.parts123.com/parts123/yb....5Z5Z50000036b#
DUB
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Melting Slicks
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Yes I broke that clip. waiting on replacement. It kinda looks like the rod that goes into the exterior handle is a little woddled out. I have new handle and rod and clip on order. just left out today order placed last Friday. When I push down on outside handle and hold down if I push the tab with a screwdriver kind of hard it pops latch doesn't need much. The Tab that everyone says to push if door is stuck is where I'm pushing. Just getting a mental plan together for when I work off and my parts arrive. That clip I'm replacing looks a little different but I'm pretty sure it's the correct one. Thanks for your help
Last edited by croaker; Feb 19, 2016 at 07:03 PM.
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Melting Slicks
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What is this at the tip of the screwdriver?
I'm taking the last sentence as release the ext handle before inserting Clevis into it's hole is that correct ? Sometimes I have poor understanding
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In your photo....you can see the broken special clip. And the threaded pin is in the LEVER that I and GM are referring to.
WHAT GM and I am 'saying'...is that...the lever that the threaded PIN is pushed into....CANNOT BE pre-engaged when you set the adjustment in the rod.
When you mess around with the latch mechanism with the door handle rod out of it. You can actually 'feel' than when you press DOWN on the lever....there is a point where you 'feel' resistance....and can ACTUALLY keep going down further. WELL...if you keep going DOWN further with the lever....you actually PRE-ENGAGE IT..and THUS...when you manually LOCK the latch mechanism...you can cause the latch mechanism to go into a LOCK DOWN issue....where you CAN NOT UNLOCK IT......BECAUSE YOU had the lever TOO FAR DOWN. And the ONLY way to fix that is that you have to remove the threaded pin and re-adjust. TEST this and you will KNOW you have it RIGHT....by simply feeling how the LOCK-UNLOCK lever feels. IF you feel a BIND in the LOCK-UNLOCK lever on the latch mechanism...you have your threaded pin TOO FAR DOWN.
DUB
WHAT GM and I am 'saying'...is that...the lever that the threaded PIN is pushed into....CANNOT BE pre-engaged when you set the adjustment in the rod.
When you mess around with the latch mechanism with the door handle rod out of it. You can actually 'feel' than when you press DOWN on the lever....there is a point where you 'feel' resistance....and can ACTUALLY keep going down further. WELL...if you keep going DOWN further with the lever....you actually PRE-ENGAGE IT..and THUS...when you manually LOCK the latch mechanism...you can cause the latch mechanism to go into a LOCK DOWN issue....where you CAN NOT UNLOCK IT......BECAUSE YOU had the lever TOO FAR DOWN. And the ONLY way to fix that is that you have to remove the threaded pin and re-adjust. TEST this and you will KNOW you have it RIGHT....by simply feeling how the LOCK-UNLOCK lever feels. IF you feel a BIND in the LOCK-UNLOCK lever on the latch mechanism...you have your threaded pin TOO FAR DOWN.
DUB
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Melting Slicks
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From: Centerville Louisiana
I'll chew on that awhile still waiting on my parts, Thanks for your help. I haven't fooled with lock since the issue started other than pushing that tab to throw the latch
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