Over the years I have collected most of the parts I need to build a '40 1/2 ton pick up (actually a '47 cab). It's going to be a street rod/ hot rod build so I'm not real concerned with originality.
I only have the door latch and remote for the drivers side. I guess the pass side latch has found a new home somewhere else.
My question is should I look for another latch for the pass side or look for another style door latch.
Do these original door latches work well?
I don't really want to use aftermarket bear claw latches because I want to have handles and locks.
Anyone have any ideas?? Anyone have a latch/remote for the pass side?
Thanks for your help
RD

 

so are your doors 40 or 47?. Basically interchangeable but different. I'm not sure if the latches interchange from 40-47, some other parts do not. It shouldn't be hard to find some. I have a stack of doors, but buried in the snow. I put 47 doors on my 40 and had to do some die grinder work to the door so I could use 40 dove tails and get the doors to close. Windows and channels are different, not sure on latches but I wouldn't make that assumption.

 

My doors are original to the cab body ('47 ish) It was actually a larger truck. It was a Kansas cab that I bought in southern Ohio.
According to DRAKES big catalogue '38-'47 are the same.
RD

 

IDK on 38-39, maybe the body lines and hinges line up so the doors technically "fit". But there are a lot of the parts that do not interchange, as I mentioned. And interchanging doors, or door parts, isn't always going to work. If I were you I'd stick with the 46-47 year parts. 42-45 SHOULD also work but I make no assumption on war era stuff and the 42 is known to have things different than the post was models

 

Rick, Could you post some pics of your door project?