Gad----spell check would have been appropriate here!! sorry----the "hole
in there" part---remove. The "nain" is a "nail".
> [Original Message]
> From: Tom Felts <tomfelts@earthlink.net>
> To: Charlie Frazer <cfrazer@jcomm.uoregon.edu>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: 5/2/2007 8:27:07 AM
> Subject: RE: BJ8 Door Handles
>
> there is a tool for doing this. I bought one years ago--think from a reg
> auto parts store. Basically you insert it in front of all the parts
except
> the handle---then pust all that mess past the hole. Hole it there. then
> put the handle on and line it up with the exposed hold and insert pin.
> Works for me all the time. I use a nain that I cut to size. I have no
> spring behind the door handle of my BJ8. Never did. Have on on the
window
> winder though.
>
> tom
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Charlie Frazer <cfrazer@jcomm.uoregon.edu>
> > To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
> > Date: 5/2/2007 2:50:13 AM
> > Subject: BJ8 Door Handles
> >
> > 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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