5000cs door handle/latch

[Stephen Sherman]

  Thanks for the suggestions.

Had a bit of time in the daytime with good weather, so I pulled the 
suspect door handle, and indeed the cast part had broken. Interesting 
thing is that with the exterior handle broken the inside handle started 
working again, so perhaps there was an adjustment issue on the outside 
handle there which was fouling up the inside handle.

Anyhow, I am now looking for new or used handles. And a seem to recall 
some years back there was someone selling door handle repair kits. 
Basically a replacement piece for the cast part which always breaks. 
Anyone know if this is still available and if they work?





On 10/12/2010 10:52 PM, Stephen Sherman wrote:
>  I had posted a couple of months ago about door opening problems with 
> my 87 5000CSTQ driver's door. In cold weather it would open from the 
> outside but in cold weather the inside handle would not work.  Well I 
> procrastinated about doing anything, and today I took the 5000 as it 
> was our first snow. Now the problem is reversed, the inside handle 
> works well, but the outside handle will not open the car door at all.
>
> This is puzzling. Opposite symptoms without any overt change in 
> anything. Short of the door latch/handle just wearing some more, I am 
> curious what these symptoms could point to. Door latch just going 
> crazy, loose parts shifting so that first one handle works then the 
> other.
>
> Anyone have any clue as to what may be going on here.
>
> TIA
>