on 8/7/06 10:17 AM, Jim Felder at felder@KNOLOGY.NET wrote:

> RE fracturing fasteners... if you can't avoid it, you just can't
> avoid it. But though the real replacements are scarce and expensive,
> my 83 westy has mostly door panel fasteners from autozone. I don't
> remember what to tell you to get, but some common automobile uses
> something that will work. Mine are dark brown, though, I couldn't get
> the ivory. But they were cheap and work great.
>
> Jim
>
Yeah, for those that are AR, you can get new ones from BD, have 'em fedexed
in, painted the correct color, & reinstall the panel to make it look good as
new, or not!

Tom B.-still avoiding fixing my lock from trying to open from inside when
locked

>
> On Aug 7, 2006, at 10:54 AM, bueses wrote:
>
>> on 8/7/06 8:55 AM, Jim Felder at felder@KNOLOGY.NET wrote:
>>
>>> Mike,
>>>
>>> Get inside the car and pop off the interior panel with a stiff putty
>>> knife wrapped in tape or a screwdriver similarly padded.
>>
>> Not easy on an 84 Westy w/ the surface mounted fasteners!  Plan on
>> having
>> some extra fasteners to replace the ones that break while removing,
>> maybe
>> even an extra panel itself to replace the panel buggered while
>> trying to get
>> it off?
>>
>> BTDT,
>>
>> Tom B.-avoiding the below repair for this reason
>>
>>
>>> Unscrew the
>>> handles, of course. When you're in there, you'll see a rod going
>>> front to back, with an adjustment mechanism that operates with an
>>> adjusting nut and a jam nut to lock it. You want to tighten it to
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