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tnygard:
The passenger door lock of my '69 Stingray has jammed. Have tried to push the rods inside with a screw driver but the won't move. Tried W40, but that did no difference either. Get the inside panel off seems impossible since the door is lock.

Luckily the wife has long legs, but she is starting to complain. Any suggestions what to do? Have tried the local (Central Coast ) panel beater and locksmith, but they were stumped too.

Tony
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gtc:
Talk to Scott at CAC. (Number at foot of each Forum page.)

demonx:
If it were me I'd pull the inner door panel off and undo the linkages one by one until I found out what was jammed.

As you already know you cannot un screw the door latch or door jam bolt with it closed which makes things difficult.


I'd be trying to get at it through the top inspection hole as much as possible. You'll have to unscrew the plastic cover and let it drop down inside the door while you work on this inspection point.

If it is the inner door lever/lock mechanism where the inside handle attaches, then all you'd have to do is unclip the rods and then the door should open manually.

If it's the upper/outside doorhandle then same as above. If it's the latch that attaches to the bolt, then you may have a problem. I'd have to go down the shed and refresh myself as to if you can get a screwdriver into it from the inside - I dont think you can. I'd have to really think about this. If worse case scenario comes into play, you might have to remove the door skin (which is just glued on) and cut the latch etc apart ...

demonx:
If it is the inner door latch that locks onto the jam bolt, I think that they're exact same as a HQ holden. So it'd be easy to find one. Don't quote me on this - I just threw a HQ one into the bin last week thinking I'd never need it and it looked exact same as my vette ones.

If it is this then it could be worth looking into rather than ordering an over priced part from the USA.

demonx:
Ok - I just went down the shed to look at the parts to see what you have to do.

While I was down there I realised I ws stupid in my previous post because if you cannot open the door you're going to have a hell of a time removing the inner panel. I took a couple pics while I was down there though so we can work out what we're dealing with.

I'm scared that if you cannot force it open somehow you may heve to remove the door skin very carefully trying not to crack the outer paint.

Have you tried spraying inox into any crack, recess anything you can get it into? You might be able to spray randomly through the top of the window hole if you wind the window down all the way. Maybe? Spraying inox like a madman inside the door isn't going to hurt anything.

In this pic you can see the mechanism that opens the door when you use the handle. (A) pushes down onto (B) and it released the door jam bolt.


This pic shows you cannot manually access the latch itself from the inside as it's got the sheaild around it.

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