Perhaps my cars were mutants, but they all had tiny cotter pins through the
bottom of the pin that holds that rod to the door.
Sid Raper
Scratching my head in Jacksonville Florida
>From: Michael Landskroner <Mlandskroner@mlg.com>
>Reply-To: Michael Landskroner <Mlandskroner@mlg.com>
>To: "'Jim Tyler'" <toplessdatsun@ga.prestige.net>, "'Pam & Paul
>Bauman'" <plhbauman@earthlink.net>
>CC: "'datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net'" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: door removal
>Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:30:53 -0500
>
>Drill them out it's easier!!
>
>My 2 cents
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Tyler [mailto:toplessdatsun@ga.prestige.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 8:57 AM
>To: Pam & Paul Bauman
>Cc: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: door removal
>
>
>you carefully grind off the small side of the rivet (pin) which passes
>through
>the two triangular
>brackets welded to the door and pop it out. (Much easier said than done)
> A
>dremel tool
>or small die grinder is the tool.
>
>Jim
>
>Pam & Paul Bauman wrote:
>
> > Having a good time paint stripping, but I ran into a poser maybe some of
>you
> > have solved. I wanted to take off the doors to strip the door frames and
> > just could not figure out how to release the arm that holds the door in
>the
> > full open position. The little devil appears to be welded onto the door
>and
> > the part inside the body is held by a large, round washer with a slot
>cut in
> > it to receive the other end. How does this thing come out? The driver's
>side
> > was easy, as the one on that side broke off before I bought the car!
> >
> > Paul
> > 67 1600
>
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