Charlie:
Once you learn the trick, it only takes a minute to install. Start the pin
into the hole in the handle but not into the open where the crank goes. Hold
it in place with a piece on masking tape or blue tape (don't use duct tape).
Once you have the spring, plastic grommet etc. in place, simply push the
handle in tightly on the crank. Then push the pin down with an awl from the
top. Once it slides into the hole, rem ove the tape with the edge of the
awl. You can use a nail slightly smaller than the hole if you don't have a
pin, just make sure that you round the point of the nail.
Bill
BJ7
>From: Charlie Frazer <cfrazer@jcomm.uoregon.edu>
>Reply-To: Charlie Frazer <cfrazer@jcomm.uoregon.edu>
>To: healeys@autox.team.net
>Subject: BJ8 Door Handles
>Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 23:52:51 -0700
>
>I'm getting around to refitting the interior handles to the doors of my
>car.
>On the window regulator, I know there is an escutcheon, a spring and a
>plastic cup in addition to the handle.
>Is there a trick to compressing all this enough to drive the pin into
>place?
>What do people use to replace the original pins since they are NA in the
>catalog?
>Concerning the interior door handle, I recently looked at another phase 2
>BJ8 that appeared to have a spring behind the door handle as well. I can't
>see this in the Moss catalog and wonder if it was original.(?)
>Thanks for your suggestions and advice.
>Charlie Frazer
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