on the driver side of my 96 eb I had to replace the door handle. during the process I noticed that the part that the handle mounts to and makes the handle work was not tighting up to the door. So I take it off and one of the mounting holes on the door was ripped, and it will not tighten up. I am not sure how to fix this. It looks to small to weld and not big enough problem to change the whole door. I know in the near future the handle will brake again.

 

Put something in there to fill up the void caused by the rip. Possibly experiment w/ some spray on bedliner in there? Go ahead and raid the junkyards if you know you'll be getting another handle later on. -William

 

i had this happen just shifted the handle a little bit and drilled a new hole& bolted in down with a flat washer so it won't rip out again i was in kind of a hurry when i fixed it but it's held up for over a year. a better way to fix this would be to get a chunk of sheet metal bent it to fit over the mounting hole and rivet it to the door then bolt the handle to it.

 

His way is better and sounds like it would actually work.
-William

 

Thanks for the help. When I was changing the door handle I guess the guy that had the bronco before me took a wire tie and straped the clip to the door. Which really didn't help just kept the clip form falling in the door.