Door handle, how do you change the plastic plunger? Options

[arkitect]

Can someone give me an insight of how you change the plastic plunger? If I open the latch it comes close to releasing it, I can try to pry but afraid of breaking it.

Dave



The broken one is on the right.

[dangrouche]

http://www.pelicanparts.com/techarticles/9...door_handle.htm
read up on it here. 1. You can try putting the plastic in by gentle force. 2. you can file down the rivet and push the rivet and re-use the rivet. 3. you can drill out and find a suitable allen head bolt and a nyloc nut (the nut and bolt needs to be the same diameter of the rivet). There is generally a lot of clearance behind the door handle to accomodate this method. This is the method I used. you could also use a nut and bolt, but you need to use loctite to make sure the nut does not back off. make sure the bolt enters from the top of the handle so if it falls off, gravity will keep the handle flap intact.
never throw away the door handle parts, you can always cobble one together from other dead ones, unless the potmetal parts are entirely broken