Yeah, Chuck, I have replaced these straps on my Midget more than once.
They don't seem to last all that long. The usual suppliers have them, and
they aren't too expensive. You are correct about the metal end attached to
the door end. You just insert it through the hole in the door. The new
ones come completely assembled, and you just install them.
Steve Byers
Havelock, NC USA
'73 Midget GAN5UD126009G "OO NINE"
"It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool
than to speak, and remove all doubt" -- Mark Twain
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> From: Chuck Ciaffone <chuckc@ibm.net>
> To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Door check strap
> Date: Friday, July 24, 1998 4:11 PM
>
> Anybody replace a door check strap lately? On my
> '72 Midget, the driver-side strap broke. I was able
> to unscrew the end that fastens to the inside of the
> door frame. I had to fish out the part that was inside
> the door itself. That "appears" to be just a strap with
> a metal end attached by a single rivet. Is that
> correct? Do I just make up a new one, rivet on the
> old end piece, and stuff it into the slot in the door?
> Izzat it?
>
> Is there a source for these straps?
>
> chuck
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> chuck ciaffone chuckc@ibm.net
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