Thread: Defender door latches

<span style="color:blue">can you post a pic of the bit you are talking about.....?</span>

He's talking about the striker, Zook.

The pin that the plastic sleeve sits on is peened/pressed/unmoveable/unreplaceable. I just keep wrapping 'leccy tape around mine, 'cause I'm cheap [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]

<span style="color:blue">im gonna have to go for a walk to see mine....

is it something a piece of plastic tube (or garden hose) with a split in it will fix.....?
and maybe some sikaflex to keep it in place....?</span>

What is the fault in the 1st place?????

It the part your talking about

MUC8526

Steve

Originally posted by sclarke
What is the fault in the 1st place?????

It the part your talking about

MUC8526

Steve

Sorry, the fault is that the plastic sleeve on the door latch/striker is worn to nothing, so the doors don't catch properly.

You're saying replace the whole striker plate?

I thought that the sleeve is impossible to replace, but hope that that isn't the case.

What I wanted to hear is that someone has pulled one of the buggers apart and added a sleeve in some softish metal like brass.

Zook's suggestion is closest. Now I'm wondering if a bit of copper water pipe cut in half and glued in place might do it.

If not, maybe the ubiquitous black water pipe that seems to be underfoot on every country property.


Cheers
Simon

Sorry to be dim but I am interested in this problem as I am suffering from it at the moment and looking for a solution.

On the bit that is connected to the body there is a thingamy that the claw whatsit (striker?) on the door itself grabs when you shut the door. On my car that thingammy has what is left of a little bit of plastic wrapping afdter years of mangling.

Am I right in thinking that a bit of electrical tape (or Zook's higher end engineering solutions) around where the rubber used to be will help the closing of the door? Is that what's being suggested here?

Exactly that, James. My '85 had it, my 130 has it, so I'm guessing it's a common problem.

I'm doing the lazy man thing and hoping that someone has already done the hard work and solved it in a permanent and clever way.

Or that someone will come up with something brilliant here. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

I guess it would help in my search for the appropriate sized pipe to go out and measure the inside and outside diameters of the stuff.

Cheers
Simon

g day
i had the same problem
i trimed the worn section out, slid
it along the striker and did a zip tie
up in the space at the other end [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]
all fixed [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

mick