If you're lucky, it will just be the loose rod. However these
handles are made of a rather flimsy metal which will break,
particularly if your doors tend to stick and you pull hard
on the handle to compensate. The only solution is to replace
the whole assembly. (In the short term, you can take off the
chrome trim piece, clamp locking pliers on the remnants of the
handle and use that to open the door. Ask me how I know this...)
As a work of advice, if using the outside handle from the inside,
it is awkward to pull on and you may overpull, again particularly
if your doors are sticky. This handle isn't exactly the sturdiest
thing either so you might want to pull gently on the outside handle
with one hand while pushing the door open with the other.
Good luck!
Greg Rowe
>From: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
>Reply-To: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
>To: "'James Carruthers'" <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>, spit
><spitfires@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: Door Handles and Brake Lights x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"
>Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:25:29 -0800
>
>James,
> I had a similar problem with my door handle. Like you said, once I
>pulled the panel off it was fairly obvious. A thin rod connects the handle
>to the mechanism. It simply passes through a hole in the handle and is
>then
>bent back. The rod had come loose causing the handle to flop around.
> Take off the handle trim plate and the window handle. Pop off the
>trim panel and good luck!
>
>Ken St.John
>74 1500 "lil Red"
>65 Mk II project "Ol Blue"
>
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