#1. "RE: Door handle surround repair" In response to Reply # 0
I REALLY admire when folks spend time and effort to tool their own repairs to faulty factory parts. I hope for your sake the repair lasts. You deserve extra credit,
I've got 3 or 5 or 12 broken door handle bits and pieces we've removed over the years. we kept them...just in case. we've also had to mix-n-match parts and re-tooled several of them to make something work.
#3. "RE: Door handle surround repair" In response to Reply # 1
>I REALLY admire when folks spend time and effort to tool >their own repairs to faulty factory parts. >I hope for your sake the repair lasts. >You deserve extra credit, > >I've got 3 or 5 or 12 broken door handle bits and pieces we've >removed over the years. we kept them...just in case. >we've also had to mix-n-match parts and re-tooled several of >them to make something work. > >Nice job. >
> >SELL OUT and FORMER >President/Founder Club 16 >
Thanks for the compliment:-)
Seriously enjoy doing all this fabrication and repair. Especially to a sexy car like this one!! The tooling takes ages, but is well worthwhile in the end.
Anyway, if the drivers side was bad, the passenger side may be going that way, so that side comes off too!!
Have a look at this photo
This is what really p***es me off. Somebody has been in here before and rather than go and get some one way clips (as I call them) to go on the end of the pins - what do they do? Bend them over and cause even more stress to the metal tabs that are a weak spot anyway. Absolutely bleeding unbelievable. I don't know what words you have got for these people in the states (jerks?), but I know what I would do to them!!!
Anyway, rant nearly over, so I repeated the reinforcement that i did on the other side.
Luckily there was no sign of stress so I may have caught it in time before it fractured.
I liberally oiled the pivot pins on the drivers side before I installed it and the difference is unbelievable. Feels so smooth and free. No wonder these things break - slightest bit of corossion and things start to bend. Theres not much "slack" in the deign to cope with any extra loading.
I really dont want to be replacing these in future. The UK don't have many working Mark 8's never mind any in junkyards!!
#4. "RE: Door handle surround repair" In response to Reply # 3
Andy, that is an excellent idea! It looks like it would work out on the long haul too!
I sure wish I saw that about a year ago. I replaced the passenger side door handle on my '97 at that time. The used handle I bought was the wrong color. The price I was quoted for all of the 3 stage paint needed to make Toreador Red was shocking to say the least! Like about $250 for the minimum quantity they would mix!
Needless to say, I matched it as close as I could with a rattle can from Auto Zone. It's reasonably close; but still a mis-match. Besides I got tired of hearing the old lady whine about the broken handle and had to, as we say: Git 'Er Done!
Just to save the old Toreador Red handle would have been worth the effort with your idea!
te1966 1994 Mark VIII, Portofino Blue; 1997 Mark VIII Base, Toreador Red 1996 Thunderbird, Red 4.6; 1970 Buick GS Stage 1
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