Rear door handle maintenance question (1 Viewer)

[Mainer7]

Hello,
I'm trying to tighten up/adjust the handle/lever on the rear driver swing out door on my
78 FJ40. It's quite loose and rattly. The rattle doesn't bother me, but I want to make the door close tighter because exhaust is vacuming into the cab and my GF hates it! I can see what needs tightening but cannot get the siler handle off. How can I remove the little lock-pin from the handle shaft? Anybody here that has done this? It seems simple once I get the handle and black boot off of there....

Thanks a lot,
Jim

 

[1Fine40]

If I recall correctly, you have a roll pin in there that you have to punch out with a pin punch. That allows the handle to come off and give you access to the rest of the mechanism...
YMMV.

 

[Mainer7]

Thanks YMMV

I'll get a pin punch.

Jim

 

[IDave]

Yes, but why are you carrying your GrandFather around in back of your 40

 

[Mainer7]

Lol, it's the only way he gets out and around anymore
He loves the 40, too!

(Sorry, GF was supposed to mean Girlfriend)

 

[IDave]

I knew that

Well, tell her to suck up and take it like a man.

 

[hammerhead]

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