Ambulance Door handle removal

[Pierps]

Hi,

I've completely disassembled and removed the latch mechanisms in my ambulance doors, except for this one interior door handle. In the picture, you can see the hole in the rubber trim piece. I can barely make out a pin of some kind, but can't tell if it's a tiny allen bolt, or if it's just a pin pressed into place.

How do I remove this darn thing?!? The SOR diagram wasn't much help.

Thanks in advance!

Peter

 

[Travis 76]

i am pretty sure it is just a pin, pressed in.
a small punch or allen wrench should be able to push it out. i haven't messed with mine in many years. hope this helps.

 

[drnekFJ40]

If I remember it right,there is a pin for sure but sometimes you need to turn the rubber part around to line up the hole exactly with the pin(not sure about this) or hit the pin from opposite side of the hole in rubber part so pin can come up through the hole...I did it last year and remember some problems...I will look again on mine...

 

[Pierps]

Thanks guys. yeah, I can spin the rubber thing around and can see the pin at 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock. I'll try gingerly knocking it out and will report back for any poor fool searching for this in the future.

 

[drnekFJ40]

I might be wrong,but maybe when I knocked the pin out it made another hole through that rubber piece at opposite side...It is only one hole in the rubber ring...Be sure you push it from the right side...It might only go one way out(it may be conical pin)...It has been over a year so I don"t remember it 100%...

 

[65swb45]

I use a small nail.

 

[Pierps]

As promised for future reference... It was indeed a pin, and I hammered it out with a nail exactly as @65swb45 suggested, and it punched a hole in the other side of the rubber piece as mentioned above. Really small and totally fine... I'm not sure how that could be avoided frankly. Maybe you could hit if a few times, just enough for it to poke out the other side, but not enough that it keeps the rubber trim piece from spinning, and rotate the rubber piece and pull it out with some needle nose pliers or something.

I hammered it out from the bottom, but it doesn't look like the pin is tapered... so it seems you could knock it out in either direction.

Pic below shows the pin (sitting on the rubber trim piece. Hope this helps somebody in the future!

 

[Travis 76]

Nice work.
Thanks for the picture.

 

[65swb45]

As promised for future reference... It was indeed a pin, and I hammered it out with a nail exactly as @65swb45 suggested, and it punched a hole in the other side of the rubber piece as mentioned above. Really small and totally fine... I'm not sure how that could be avoided frankly. Maybe you could hit if a few times, just enough for it to poke out the other side, but not enough that it keeps the rubber trim piece from spinning, and rotate the rubber piece and pull it out with some needle nose pliers or something.

I hammered it out from the bottom, but it doesn't look like the pin is tapered... so it seems you could knock it out in either direction.

Pic below shows the pin (sitting on the rubber trim piece. Hope this helps somebody in the future!

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That's what the 'like' button is for.. The nail also works real good for the latch on the 66-74 front door windwing windows. A tip from my Oriental cousin: Lo Tec.