Re: [Amc-list] Rear door on Eagle wagon won't open

[Keleigh Hardie <keleigh3000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since you've got the door trim off already, is there enough room between 
the door and the body to get a wrench in there and unscrew the lock pin? 
Maybe with the seat folded down, or removed?

Kelly

Roger Blake wrote:
> During the winter I started having a problem with the left rear door
> on my '85 Eagle wagon, in that it will not open using either the inside or
> outside door handle. Now that the weather is getting decent I finally
> decided to check out the inside of the door to see what's going on. I
> managed to get the door panel off from inside the car.
>
> I was hoping to find just a linkage rod fallen out of place, but
> no such luck. Both inside and outside door handle linkages work,
> as does the door lock linkage. When I work the door lock I can see
> a slider moving up and down in the latch, but the latch does not
> release. So it appears then that the door lock mechanism inside the
> latch is stuck in the "locked" position.
>
> The Eagle M.R. 251 manual does not have a body section, but I do have
> a 1975 AMC TSM (Eagle latches should be the same as Hornet). Unfortunately
> the TSM does not go into detail on the workings of the latch itself, only
> the control linkages. I assume then that the latch is supposed to be
> swapped out as a unit if it fails, trouble is of course that the door
> has to be open to do this!
>
> I've tried soaking everything I can reach with penetrating oil. (Didn't
> expect this to do anything, and it didn't, but couldn't think of anything
> else.) Any ideas how I can get this door open, short of a torch?
>
>   
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