Re: [MBZ] Door Won't Close
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Peter Frederickpsf...@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
Re: [MBZ] Door Won't Close
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.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Peter Frederickpsf...@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
[MBZ] Door Won't Close
The latching hook on my drivers door ('77 300D) has seemingly frozen in the
closed position with the door open. The door locking mech still feels like
it's working by pulling up/pushing down on the latch.
What's wrong? I can't close my door.
Bob R
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Re: [MBZ] Door Won't Close
The latching hook on my drivers door ('77 300D) has seemingly frozen
in the
closed position with the door open. The door locking mech still feels
like
it's working by pulling up/pushing down on the latch.
What's wrong? I can't close my door.
Lube it up, and it'll un-stick and start working right again.
-- Jim
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Re: [MBZ] Door Won't Close
The door latch has been triggered with the door open. The latch sort of rotates over and will not pop back up by itself when you operate the release (either inside or outside). To fix it, hold the release open and use a large screwdriver to flip the latch lever open (it closes over a round bar, and opens when you pull on the door). May be a bit stiff, in which case it needs shot of white lithium grease into the mechanism (but NOT the pin that goes into the tapered socked on the body, it will stick terribly!). What happened was that the door was pulled almost closed and then pushed open without using the release, allowing the latch to close. This happens most often when the mechanism is binding from lack of lubrication, otherwise it would have latched. Poor lubrication will also cause the door to bounce rather than latch, too. Peter ___ 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
