If I can do it with no experience in under and hour for each door anyone can do it. Yeah it is a tight working area but if you use your smarts it is not that bad a job.

 

SS
Its not really that bad.....basically everything has to be removed to get anything out....the lock cylinder...central locking motors....inner door locking mech....you get the idea....then you can get at the broken POS piece and fix it! (just remember to roll the window down!)

 

Brian: Didn't we do it w/o removing the lock cylinder in Mike's car?

 

as always - great info!!! THX!!

I did consider converting to a RHD car or just replacing the whole door and repainting... a coat hanger solution came to mind too but after the calvery arrived, I ordered the part this morning and suspect by the time it arrives I'll have it apart.... w/any luck I won't need more parts (for that project anyway) ha!

the challenge on mine is removing the dang dynomat - it's covering all the screw access holes, and a bugger to remove...took a while to find all the hidden stuff.... looks like a crappy weekend for weather anyway, so I guess I've got something to do instead of pining for blue skies, rewaxing etc...

think I'll back off the snugness of the door post/fit too... don't want to do this again....

thx again!!! you're the BEST!!

 

Done mine too, it wa snot so bad but you have to keep winding the window up and down to give you working space at the right moment; it is not always obvious that moving the window will give you the working space.
I took the opportunity to throw away the security plate.

Marton

 

Uh - don't let the car thieves know, for example by posting that on the Internet...

Oh, forgot you are in Switzerland where there is not such thing as crime.

 

Last year a friend of mine reported his 3 year old Volvo as stolen. Police refused to accept his report, they said nobody would steal a 3 year old car. They said he must have forgotten where he parked it.

They came and drove him around in a police car and found it after 15 minutes where he had parked it.

In the village where I live the local cycle shop leaves his bikes on display outside overnight, unlocked.

Marton

 

Ross
Don't worry about until it completely breaks....then fix it....I have felt other door handles that feel a little weird....my guess there is a crack growing in the assembly, but it hasn't broken off complelely so the door still works...just be careful with it.

 

no such thing as a simple job w/me (too many computer projects that got re-scoped/expanded) I wound up w/a stroker cause a cam cover leaked oil, and then proceeded to OH the whole car cause "all this stuff was connected" in some bizzare ritual of while-I'm-in-there-itis if I can just get through this w/out a body mod kit - it'll be a friggin miracle, ha!

come to think of it, didn't someone do shaved handles, tilt up or gull wing doors?? uh oh... put the torch down and breathe, rob... now back away slowly

funny thing is - I just discovered the tech links on my own web page. duh!! sometimes I"m such a putz seems the part went up in price though - from $38 to $51 or so... guess it's worth more to get into a car via the door than the window now or is the new part better??

 

Bill
Hmmm....this is a fine example of CRS (cant remember SH!?!?!?T)....I thought we pulled it....the more I think of it, the more I am sure we did....remember I showed you the trick while putting it back in with the little white plastic arm, since doing it backwards (the way I learned the hard way on gerry's 78) is really hard to do!! Or maybe that was the larger arm thats opens the door? I dunno?

Its really easy to pull the lock cylinder...one screw on in the door jamb at the little arm...thats it!

 

I guess we pried it out a little. I remember the arm, but I don't remember taking the cylinder all the way out. All-in-all it seemed like we had to remove a lot less than I thought.

 

Rob: Show a pic.of the broken piece as my 78 has gone thru 3 of those things and I assisted on Surgiblades door handle surgery viewed the one on jorgs website and each and every one of them has broken in the exact same place.I have yet to see that part fail in any other manner.Good Luck on your rite of passage!!! Gerry

 

will do this weekend when I go back out to do battle - with my urge to NOT leave stuff alone

 

ok. done. looks like mine broke at the handle mouning point on the lever side, but the lever was cracking too... R&R wasn't so bad by the 2nd time I did the job (duh, see tip #4) and figured out how every works/those clever little germans..

couple of notes:
1) make sure you have a magnetic tool to fish/pickup all the dropped screws, it'll be worth it's weight in gold for salvaging dropped items and future rattles.

2) outside key lock doesn't have to come out, but if it's loose it seems to help make more room... put window up for bottom security plate bolt access, loosen it up, then drop the window and remove the remaining screws and it'll fall right out...

3) if you pull the phillips head screw off the top of the power lock arm where it attaches to the motor, the motor is free to be removed - easier than messing w/clips, but remember the position it's in when you pull it off...

4) make sure you lube everything up good... I had to pull everything apart again cause it was too tight.. I used liberal amounts of silicone spray and now the lock and latch operations are smoother than silk...

5) 928 intl had the correct part to me in 1 day.... always a bonus to get stuff when you need it/want it... thx guys!

course, I couldn't stop there, so I took some extra time to re-align the entire door and insured it's opening as smooth/easy as possible to keep the latch stress down... I was proud of myself for not picking up the torch and creating something else...

hope this helps the next person, and thx for the tips, etc rennlist rocksk!!

 

Rob
thats the culprit!! But I think Gerrys broke on the other side? I can't remember...damm CRS!!