Interior door handles?
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we've work with a few guys who have fabbed up aluminum handle's for out spray guns (I know those are like $50 a piece or something). I could take one off my parts truck and see what it would cost to have a set made.
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I have the same issue, I found the replacements at napa for under 7 bucks. I have to make a bracket and support the door where the handle mounts. The handle pulls nice and free but over time and yanking of the previous owners, they have weakend the metal. They 96 I have has cables for linkage and the 89 and 90 i have as parts trucks, have solid rods, has anyone switched them over before?
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They do appear somewhat close. The key would be to see if the mounting plate end would fit up and retain it fixed at the correct angle. The later, plastic, part holds at the right angle due to a cast-in slot which accepts a locating tab on the door mechanism. If the earlier part is orientated similarly, I can't see why it wouldn't work. My homebrew steel handles duplicate all the original mounting features of the 1996 handles, which assures that the hanle falls right in the hand. If the earlier part fits right and works, there is only one question: "Why did they change the design(except to cheapen it!)" Disimprovement?! Planned obsolescence? ???
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If i remember correctly, I fit a set of the 86 metals on a later door, 92 maybe. I had swapped the doors on my 86 and wanted to keep the chromy look. I wish they never changed the design. the older pulls used rods instead of a cable. I never had a problem with them. less than a year after I swapped the doors, I broke the drivers door cable.
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Seems to me like a you could fabric an adaptor plate to use the metal handles.
Incidentally my driverside door cable needs to be shortened/adjusted as I have to pull nearly to the end of the handles to open the door
Incidentally my driverside door cable needs to be shortened/adjusted as I have to pull nearly to the end of the handles to open the door
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Those chrome handles you have pictured there will work i have them on my truck now after breaking a lot of them. I got mine at napa. They were a little pricey but i have not broke one yet. And i don't think i ever will. They do sit aout 1/4 inch lower but nothing to complain about. You can lube the **** out of the latch but one time you will get in a hurry or be pissed off or it's cold out and the plastic one will break. These you don't have to worry about.
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I have pulled them off my 86 parts trucks and put them in my newer trucks
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i got tired of fixing them and just pulled the doors off. I ground out the pins and dropped my own in to make the doors removable. If you take the door panel off the metal hinge works if you take the sring out too.
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The door pull comprised of a vinyl shell with a steel attaching plate held in place by injected foam is a standby on many car makes. I currently have 2 falling apart on my 1966 Volvo 222S Estate Wagon, and I am really badly disappointed that they failed so soon... 
made of really high quality materials, but nothing is forever!
As far as the door handles, my experience with the plastic originals has been almost nearly as good as FossenRacing's experience with them.
Since he cogently suggests the Canadian cold as the cause, his observation rather brings me to a rock-wall halt in positing a reason why we have them break, since I was thinking it might have been caused by the Arizona summer desert heat. I now would suggest that the probable cause for having them break is having them installed on the door and then using them to open the door...
Does anyone have a better idea?
Life is too importance to take it seriously. Oscar Wilde
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made of really high quality materials, but nothing is forever!As far as the door handles, my experience with the plastic originals has been almost nearly as good as FossenRacing's experience with them.
Since he cogently suggests the Canadian cold as the cause, his observation rather brings me to a rock-wall halt in positing a reason why we have them break, since I was thinking it might have been caused by the Arizona summer desert heat. I now would suggest that the probable cause for having them break is having them installed on the door and then using them to open the door...
Does anyone have a better idea?
Life is too importance to take it seriously. Oscar Wilde
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Since he cogently suggests the Canadian cold as the cause, his observation rather brings me to a rock-wall halt in positing a reason why we have them break, since I was thinking it might have been caused by the Arizona summer desert heat. I now would suggest that the probable cause for having them break is having them installed on the door and then using them to open the door...
Does anyone have a better idea?
Does anyone have a better idea?
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Gad, I just hate it when I'm right...
I don't know how easy the Ford door pulls are to get. If they are as difficult as they are for the Volvo, I may be able to show how they can be repaired and reused, if the Ford ones are built as are Volvo's design-an outer crispy plastic shell, filled with generous amounts of soft resilient foam soft foam inside with a sweet solid sheet metal holder inside placed and held neatly in the center... Truly a neat concoction.
Think I gotta go get something to eat.
Arrrgh... .
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I don't know how easy the Ford door pulls are to get. If they are as difficult as they are for the Volvo, I may be able to show how they can be repaired and reused, if the Ford ones are built as are Volvo's design-an outer crispy plastic shell, filled with generous amounts of soft resilient foam soft foam inside with a sweet solid sheet metal holder inside placed and held neatly in the center... Truly a neat concoction.
Think I gotta go get something to eat.
Arrrgh... .
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