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Triumph TR6 - Door Handles

It seams that when ever I think I am making progress...i run into another situation where experience far outweighs any manual. Does anyone out there have a trick for putting the interior window/door handles back on after re-trimming...

The spring is so tight that to compress the escutheon and then insert the small holding pin is almost impossible..at least for my wife and I (yes, she's out here helping me now just so she can get me back in the house one day!). Anyways...any hints on this subject will be greatly appreciated by my widow and kids.

thanks
Bob Craske

Bob....just leave the spring out. Mines been that way for 2 yrs, still staying in place.....
Rod
Rod Nichols

If you, standing outside the car, push the spring in with 2 fingers, your wife can slide the door handle over and put the little pin in place (with a small tool). Thats the way I did it (with help from the wife)

Eric
Eric de Lange

Bob, I'm not sure that I remember this 100% but I am sure that my wift did not help me. I inserted a mandrel of the same dia. as the pin from the opposite side and left it about half way through the square stud, that will keep the handle in place so that you can use your two hands pushing in the plastic ring and spring at the same time as you insert the little pin with a pair of narrow and pointed pliers. Then with a somewhat bigger mandrel I forced the pin flush with the outside surface of the handle (the first mandrel is pushed out of the hole by the pin and can be removed). Check that nothing interferes with the compression of the spring, it's a conical spring and it should (in theory) compress to the wire dia. it's made of without too much force.

Good luck, Goran..
G Wennergrund

Bob
This is very easy to do once you get the knack, get an ordinary nail the same dia as the pin, grind off the point, cut it carefully 3/4 way through with a junior hacksaw at the same length as the original pin, push the handle and spring in, separate them and put the nail through then break it off at the hacksaw cut. You can literally do all four in a couple of minutes by this method.
Ron




R. Algie

Thank you all, I have a few different methods to try out now....one has to work!
Bob Craske

Bob,

Ron's little trick worked great for me.

Mark
Mark Wright

Ended up using a bit of all suggestions, used rons to insert a long pin to hold the handles in place and the pushed to real pin in from the other side using a cutoff screwdriver and the pin lightly taped to its end..first one too 30 minutes, the last one took 3 minutes. Again, thanks to all who offered suggestions
Bob Craske

This thread was discussed between 28/07/2004 and 31/07/2004

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