Jim was right. I spray lubed the heck out of it and it now is working. Thanks, smart guy.
Bob R On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Alex Chamberlain <apchamberl...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Peter Frederick<psf...@earthlink.net> > wrote: > > Poor lubrication will also cause the door to "bounce" rather than latch, > > too. > > > > Don't know how relevant this is to Bob's W123, but my 124s seem to be > prone to misbehaving door latches, including several times the dreaded > bounce. Fixing the latter always required cleaning and relubrication > of the parts of the latch mechanism inside the door---lubing the few > bits that are visible when the door is fully assembled did nothing. > It's been a while since the last time, but I seem to recall that I > removed the inner panel; angled the "straw" of a can of sprayable > white lithium grease into the open space where the inner door handle > fits into the rod for the latch mechanism, aiming towards the upper > outer corner of the door; then sprayed liberally. > > Alex > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090723/d616b788/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
