[Healeys] BJ8 Door Lock/Latch

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 14:04:50 MST 2011


Joinas -

It sounds to me like the striker is simply out of adjustment.  I
suspect it is too low....

Alan

On 2/22/11, Jonas Payne <JPayne at thorcon.net> wrote:
> I have a passenger side door latch that is failing and cause for some
> concern, as I don't want to lose my passenger when cornering.
>
> While underway, and when entering the car, sometimes the latch will not
> hold it's "latched" position on the post in either of its 2 positions .
>
>  In addition, in fiddling with it, with the door open, sometimes it
> fails to positively engage either of it's 2 latch positions.  IE - it
> just swings around doing nothing.
>
> What is the recommended process for repairing one of these, since they
> apparently are not re-produced.
>
>
> Jonas Payne
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