Pics of door handle removal / How to put the window adjustment screw back in

[mackinaugh]

I don't have anywhere to host the pics, so I'll have to give the descriptions now, and attach them to the end.

1 - This is the door handle with the panel removed. Remove the cirlced parts to get the plastic part off. The green circles are real screws, the red circle is a plastic screw (the same as on the front of the door panel). BE CAREFUL with this plastic screw, mine was in there very tight. I ended up twisting the head off and had to drill it out.

2 - The door handle after the plastic part is removed. Unscrewing the circled screws will release it from the door, but you can't have it yet. The door handle has a plastic clip on the back that holds it to the rod that runs to the back of the door. See next photo for pic of the clip.

3 - The door handle after it's been removed from the door. Green is top, red is bottom, blue is front. The rod comes from the back of the door (only part with no colored line), and has a 90 degree turn down (towards red). The downturned part fits into a hole in the plastic clip (cannot see in photo), going in the direction of the yellow arrow. The clip pivots around so that the open part (in the photo facing away from the door handle) is now facing TOWARDS the door handle, and the rod. It snaps onto the horizontal part of the rod.

4 - The opening with the door handle removed. You can see the rod with the downturned end. This will attack your hand as you reach in to do things.

5 - I tie-wrapped the door handle to this hole to stop the madness. It worked fine, and caused no damage or bending to the rod.



If you just need to get the door handle off, that's it. If you need to re-insert the window adjustment screw then read on.

The screw is threaded opposite ways on either side with a small smooth divider in the middle to seperate the threads. This way unscrewing it from one part (the door frame) also unscrews it from the other part (the window slide). The easiest way that I could find to get the adjustment screw back in was to get the door-nut out of the way. By door-nut, I mean the plastic thing held on to the door by two screws that the window adjustment screw lives in. I removed the top screw from the door-nut, and ONLY LOOSENED the bottom one so that the door-nut stayed there, but swung down out of the way. I screwed the window adjustment screw into the window slide nut JUST A TINY BIT. I then pushed the window slide back enough to swing the door-nut back into place and reattached it to the door (loosely). Then screwed the window adjustment screw back in.

It took quite a bit of pushing on the window slide to get room for the door-nut to clear the window adjustment screw once it's partially screwed into the window slide nut. I figured that in order to unscrew the window adjustment screw enough for it to fall into the door it must have pushed that far already, so don't be scared (don't be a gorilla either, of course).



If I'm unclear, I apologize. It's a bit late, and my wife is yelling to go to bed. I'll re-read this tomorrow and see if I can't make more sense.