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Grease Monkey
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How is the door handle reset so that it is horizontal. My car is a four door and the two rear doors are fine but the two front door handles hang down just a bit and I would like them to be straight.
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Try tightening the tapered screw that holds the handle in. I did it to my 37 and it helped a lot.
Ed
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I believe that I recently read a post about replacing the spring. The old one did not provide enough force to make the handle return properly. Not sure if that is applicable to your car.
Rusty
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You can buy latch rebuild kits from The Filling Station or Chevs of 40's. They have the spring that Rusty mentions as well as a bunch of other small parts. It's often the compound effect of minor wear on several parts that causes this sag. Drives me crazy.
1938 Canadian Pontiac Business Coupe (aka a 1938 Chevy Coupe with Pontiac shaped front sheet metal - almost all Chevy!)
1975 4-speed L82 Vette
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