I think you might be right. Joel suggested cleaning the rubber and mating metal surface carefully, which I did. Then I removed the cover off the slider track and lubricated everything, and adjusted the pawl that latches the door in the open position, it had worked loose. But after a number of tries, peering into the mechanism as it operated and trying to get a feel for where the catch was, it seemed apparent that the locking catch at the rear, the one that rotates on a rod and looks like the end of an open-end wrench, is not letting go as it should. How did you adjust that cable? Jim On Apr 12, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Pascal Giasson wrote: > It might be that the cable inside your door need adjustment. It's not > releasing the latch mechanism fully at the rear. Mine did the same > thing > last year. It seemed to get progresively worse until we could not > get the > door open. > > Pascal > '84 Westy > |
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