> >you have to remove the inner doorpanel (or at least the top forward part >>of it) to replace the outside slider doorhandle. doorhandle is held on >>by a phillips. no biggie, doorpanel just pops off w/ a flathead. chris > >And those parts cost about $30 or $40? But I lose the use of the ignition >key, obviously :( Swap lock barrels over. They may well fit. But this is fiddly... I installed another potmetal handle and swapped the locks over... worked fine, but eventually something came loose and the lock fell out! This was while the van was stored in my mother's garage, and the little sppring (the difficult-to-reinstall item) was lost, so no lock for me now! -- Andrew Grebneff 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut Friends don't let friends do Windows |
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