rear door handles

ButterFingers

ButterFingers

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hi there,
I have spent 2 hours trying to remove the rear door handle on my 1976 pb6. It is the type with a rubber insert and I wonder if they are different to the front handles that are secured by a wire loop horseshoe type spring?
I have removed the front ones with no effort, but the rears are a problem.
Peter
 
Somebody may of had them off and put the spring clip in backwards, so there is nothing to snag to pull out. If you lever the plastic spacer off the metal part of the handle, you can slip between them and snag the clip if that's what has happened.

Yours
Vern
 
GRTV8 said:
Now your getting frustrated and mad - down tools, walk away, have a cuppa . Come back to it another day. Works everytime.
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I have done exactly that many times and it works every time too.
in desperation I had to resort to drastic methods to remove the door opening handle. I used a large fork like tool that is for removing ball joints and eventually it came off.
The pictures show what I found and it appears its a mechanism from another car completely, with a screw hole for attaching the handle? Morris minor?
Wins does not have any so I ask if there is one lurking in someones garage ? (passenger side rear door)

unfortunately I dont seem to be able to upload files any more so the description will have to do!
the format seems to have changed?

Peter
 
Shame you cant post the photos, I for one would be very keen to see the hybridized (bodged and bastardized) result who knows it might well be an improvement or a change worthy of repetition.

Graeme and incurable P6 obsessed fool
 
interesting thread. nice that members offer advise and assist. wonder if this and other classic car sites can agree a 'free' pic service .( possible with a small ad ? by providers) that we can all share and use .sort of universal format .size etc .
 
Hi, I think they are off a Triumph, can't remember which one off hand.

Colin

Edit: Found it, Triumph TR4/5/6. Maybe others but I gave up.
 
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Now, the question is how the hell did they get into the back of a Rover? A 76 is very late production, perhaps a factory adaptation knowing that the line was shutting down in the spring of 77?

Yours
Vern
 
Well, here is another one for you.
My TC also came with a set of these fitted in all 4 doors, and a set of (badly) drilled series 2 handles screwed on them.
I never really understood why a former owner or mechanic would do such a thing.
When i bought the car, i had the shafts slotted, a fitted another good used set of series 2 handles with the factory spring clips.
The only giveaway now is that the handles at rest aren't at the most convenient place, especially on the rear, or they foul on the window winders (also suffered the same strange conversion).
This is how it used to be:

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hi there, many interesting replys, thank you all.
the problem now is what type of Rover handle will fit the screw mounting shaft, any ideas.
The shaft is too short to have a groove cut in it for the spring clips to work?
Peter
 
Hi there,
I have some Morris minor door handles that belong to the car I am slowly restoring, a MM convertible, so I wondered if the handle would fit.
It is a perfect fit and the center screw thread is the same too, so for the time being I will use the MM handle, now to remove the other D/S rear door trim and see if they are both the same?

Peter
 
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