Pretty sure they're discontinued unfortunately...
Guess I'm going to be making the same trip twice fml. Serves me right for not having the foresight
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Pretty sure they're discontinued unfortunately...
Guess I'm going to be making the same trip twice fml. Serves me right for not having the foresight
I JUST put these handles on my '99 C3500 crew cab. I was able to find 4 NOS handles, but most of the linkage and one pawl I had to fabricate. I used arc welding rod that was the same diameter as the original rods. But it can be done.
I came up with the idea about a month ago while working on a customer's C3500HD truck. I THOUGHT I was going to be the first guy in the world with these handles on a GMT 400. Then when I was looking around for parts to do the job I stumbled on this site and found out that others had had the same idea. I had never seen it though.
Tom
Welcome to my world!!
I may try to fab up a set using regular linkage rods...but that will be a very rainy day.
Regarding the pawls (still not exactly sure what they are) - why do they require modification? I have keys for my handles. Is this still a concern for mine?
Thx for trying clarify but I'm only 50% there. So without modification, assuming I had the correct rods etc, they would not work with my latches?A pawl is the piece that secures to the rotating back end of the lock cylinder that hooks up to the lock linkage rod. They are different from the stock handle because the flush mount design of the original handle puts the lock cylinder further in the door cavity than the Kodiak handles in which the lock cylinder sits outside the door cavity. The pawl for the Kodiak handle is kind of like and extension that connects to the lock linkage, but is also needed to clear the body of the Kodiak handles. IMO, the word "pawl" doesn't accurately describe the part at all.
I could be wrong, but I don't think there are "right" and "left" lock cylinders. There ARE right and left pawls that are mirror images of each other.
Tom
Thx for trying clarify but I'm only 50% there. So without modification, assuming I had the correct rods etc, they would not work with my latches?
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