Door lock knob help!!
02-22-2014, 07:30 PM
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It was always a machine screw that held it in...? Not sure what you mean ("instead of a bolt"). Go look at the other side to see what you should have....
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02-22-2014, 08:01 PM
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It's exactly as pictured on passenger side with a bolt holding on. The piece that's stripped is male, as a bolt screws onto it to hold the **** on. This is why I'm thinking I droll it out and use a screw...
This is drivers side...
This is drivers side...
02-22-2014, 08:13 PM
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Thats a nut (not a bolt), and you'd think it screws onto a much longer stud - so this how the early cars are built...
On the later cars (reason for my last comment) it looks like this below - just assumed they all did...
Looking at PET 1982 & earlier is like this with a nut (you are missing a washer & wave washer), but by '86 its like the later style with a machine screw (M5 x 12mm) - so changed somewhere in there - before the S4 changeover.
Why put a stud with a nut - it all seems so pointlessly complex..?
So cut it off flush with a dremmel drill it and tap it - make it look like the later version - as an upgrade!
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On the later cars (reason for my last comment) it looks like this below - just assumed they all did...
Looking at PET 1982 & earlier is like this with a nut (you are missing a washer & wave washer), but by '86 its like the later style with a machine screw (M5 x 12mm) - so changed somewhere in there - before the S4 changeover.
Why put a stud with a nut - it all seems so pointlessly complex..?
So cut it off flush with a dremmel drill it and tap it - make it look like the later version - as an upgrade!
Alan
Last edited by Alan; 02-22-2014 at 08:30 PM.
02-22-2014, 09:02 PM
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Does anyone use their door **** lock? Mine does not turn by hand. I press the red button on my '89. I tried using the ***** but they don't turn by hand. Sometimes when I lock my car I get stuck in it for a couple of minutes and I have to press the red button a 1,000 times so I can get out of my car. I usually only lock the door when I am in bad areas like the front of walmart.