Re: Thanks for the vinyl top help & a broken door handle

["amc74hornet" <AMC74HORNET@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Plumpy72@xxxx wrote:
> Jeff
> 
> I may have an extra door handle in the garage. I'll take a look and let you 
> know.
> 
> Rick

One thing to note on these door handles when they break. There is usually some thing that causes them to break like a linkage problem or a latch problem. I have repalced a few broken ones in friends cars and found it to have been caused by one of the above problems. It was never just the handle broke. I probably would have had the door handle break on the pass side of the orange car. The door was very hard opening. The hinges were good and I adjusted the striker with no success. After takeing off the door panel I found the rod from the handle to the latch binding on one of the handle mounting bolts heads. I attemped to bend the rod slightly for clearance but it was better but was not perfect. I removed the bolt and shaved 1/32" off the head with my battery powered Dremil and that along with bending the rod cured the clearance problem. And there was still enough metal on the head for the torques socket to tighten it up properly and hold the handle tight. I know sooner or later that my wife would have pulled on the handle hard enough to break it. I gave a good handle to a friend with a Gremlin and he installed it and pulled on it once and broke it. He had a bad latch mechanism. I always lube all the locks and door mechanisms with a spray grafite lock lube. When the liquid evaperated it leaves the grafite to keep everything working easily. White grease and other greases collect dirt. I even use the grafite on the tracks and rollers on my garage door.
"Doc"