1989 K1500 SCLB plow truck. The drivers side door has no electronics... manual locks, crank window, mirror, etc.
The problem started last fall, the inside door handle stuck in the open position and the door wouldn't latch. It was like this all winter but being a plow truck I just dealt with it until yesterday when I went to try to fix it...
Well, I took it all apart and the handle is moving fine, but the actual mechanism inside the door is the frozen / rusted part. I took it apart and realized that I couldn't easily remove it to look at it on the bench. So I drowned it with pentrating oil and put 1 out of 3 bolts back to hold it in place and the wind caught the door and shut it somehow... Now it is stuck closed and I don't know how to open it. Luckily the rods are all exposed on the inside but they are definitely stuck at the latch, not the handle. And after all the messing with it trying to remove the latch from the door, the outside door handle just flops around now too.
I guess I fixed the original problem but now its a drinkers-side entry only truck.
Any Ideas? Maybe if I see a parts blowup I can figure out a way to open the door without using a sawzall.
The problem started last fall, the inside door handle stuck in the open position and the door wouldn't latch. It was like this all winter but being a plow truck I just dealt with it until yesterday when I went to try to fix it...
Well, I took it all apart and the handle is moving fine, but the actual mechanism inside the door is the frozen / rusted part. I took it apart and realized that I couldn't easily remove it to look at it on the bench. So I drowned it with pentrating oil and put 1 out of 3 bolts back to hold it in place and the wind caught the door and shut it somehow... Now it is stuck closed and I don't know how to open it. Luckily the rods are all exposed on the inside but they are definitely stuck at the latch, not the handle. And after all the messing with it trying to remove the latch from the door, the outside door handle just flops around now too.
I guess I fixed the original problem but now its a drinkers-side entry only truck.
Any Ideas? Maybe if I see a parts blowup I can figure out a way to open the door without using a sawzall.