[Tigers] inside door parts questions

Gary garywinblad at comcast.net
Fri May 29 09:56:48 MDT 2020


Oh yeah...
My MK1 did have half donuts glued on the back of the door panel around 
the shafts..  must be what
Rick sells.  I can't remember if the originals were foam rubber or felt...
Gary



On 5/28/2020 10:59 AM, James Armstrong via Tigers wrote:
> GREAT PICTURE !
>
> Rick returned my call and said there are donuts on both shafts.
>
> And he sells them. they come as half donuts !
>
> Hu-ray !
>
> Jim A
>
> In a message dated 5/28/2020 11:20:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> jay.laifman at gmail.com writes:
>
>     I've had the same problem with getting that pin out.  I recall
>     having to damage the lip once to get an awl in there to push out
>     the pin.
>
>     I've never seen that rubber piece either.  I'll have to check to
>     see if the Tiger has them.  No Alpine I've had did (I've had 3 of
>     them).  But I was certainly not the original owner on any of them
>     - though one of them was very unmolested, and somewhat low mileage
>     when I got it in 1977.  But it was a very very late SV (like one
>     of the last 150), and various money saving things were done on the
>     cars by then.
>
>     I will say as an aside, I recall the pot metal on those door
>     handles breaking.  I got a stainless steel pair from CAT probably
>     around 1979.  Still going strong.  Thank you to whomever made those!
>
>     Jay
>
>
>
>     On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 8:59 PM Derek Daily via Tigers
>     <tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net>> wrote:
>
>         Hmmm, i was just going through door reassembly this weekend.
>         Where would the rubber "sleeve" go? In my case, early MKIA
>         ...000428, the handles are snug over the male post. In fact,
>         as one of those original fixing pins has gone missing, i
>         attempted to use plumbing tape over the post prior to
>         replacing the handle pin and the handle could not slide over
>         the thin tape. No way a rubber sleeve would work on this car
>         (unless im misunderstanding Placement location..).
>
>         FWIW, i have three donuts per side. Two on door latch post One
>         on window crank. However, I can state no knowledge of original
>         location.
>
>         Also: while we on on this Door topic, about the escutcheon
>         with chrome ring and spring to mate from door card to "base"
>         of lever after reattaching... those suck. On most i have the
>         chrome pushed in to eacutcheon far enough to allow the pin to
>         be inserted and no way to pull chrome out once handle is
>         connected. Even if i did, the chrome would never slide back in
>         to allow handle pin removal Ever again. All hardware here
>         including card are original.
>
>         Lets see if i can attach...
>
>
>
>
>
>         Derek Daily
>         dtdaily at yahoo.com <mailto:dtdaily at yahoo.com>
>
>             On May 27, 2020, at 6:09 PM, michael king
>             <michael.s.king at gmail.com
>             <mailto:michael.s.king at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Sorry photo didn't attach...the anti rattle rubber.
>
>             On Thu., 28 May 2020, 11:08 michael king,
>             <michael.s.king at gmail.com
>             <mailto:michael.s.king at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 Jim..  I havent got access to the manuals in front of
>                 me... But.. The doors have the felt spacers on the
>                 winder and handle. They also had a rubber spacer
>                 sleeve that was used on the handles that goes over the
>                 shaft and the handle slips over those so stop them
>                 rattling.. Maybe thats what you are looking at?
>
>                 Pic attached
>
>
>
>                 On Thu., 28 May 2020, 08:59 James Armstrong via
>                 Tigers, <tigers at autox.team.net
>                 <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net>> wrote:
>
>                     Hello,
>
>
>                     In putting my door back together, I have a few
>                     questions:
>                     1) are there two felt donuts, one on the window
>                     winder shaft (shown but not called out in Alpine
>                     parts manual) and is there another on the door
>                     opener shaft?
>
>                     2) what the heck are part #s YX  Illus. B # s  98
>                     and 98/1 inside of door around the door opening shaft?
>                     Also in the Alpine parts manual Series 3 and up
>
>                     Help please
>
>                     Jim
>
>                     Jim Armstrong
>                     Mk 1A
>                     382002083
>
>
>
>             <4aef7790.jpg>
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