2 door interior saftey latch

Post by **aupickup** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 3:21 pm

how do i remove the interior passenger side saftey latch

thanks

Post by **paulk** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:18 pm

please anyone? I'm stick in the same boat, can't strip the lock out till I get the catch off.

Post by **alex_holden** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:43 pm

Do you mean the little alloy lock lever? IIRC there's a spring pin on the latch body that you have to pull out.

Post by **aupickup** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:14 pm

thats the latch

no spring pin on the door lock or on my spare ome

Post by **jaekl** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:20 pm

If you are talking about a 2 door, you must reach up inside and pull that wire clip out. It's close to the inner panel and pulls down.

Post by **aupickup** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:38 pm

its a late 2 door
there is no clip, nor on my spare handle either

the only clip is on the vertical bar that goes up and down for the latch action

Post by **MGFmad** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:08 pm

Mine was the same, the manual states that there is a spring clip but it was wasn't there! There seems to be some sort of locating pin on the end of the latch, as I was waggling it about, it came out, or perhaps my spring was missing!

Post by **aupickup** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:11 pm

thank you

Post by **jonathon** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:21 pm

Dennis, do not pull out any wire ,clip or other fitting.
With the door cars removed take a fine flat screw driver and feel for a recess in the body of the latch. Its difficult to see so feel is best. There is a spring loaded plunger that needs to be pressed into the latches body, this done the latch will simply release.
The plunger itself is probably ony 2-3mm in diameter so difficult for us 'oldies ' to even see it, let alone contort our bodies, to be in a position to do so.

Post by **alex_holden** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:10 am

My 1963 Trav has a spring clip. Perhaps they changed it later.

Post by **aupickup** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:05 pm

thank you jonathon

Post by **MGFmad** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:47 pm

jonathon wrote:Dennis, do not pull out any wire ,clip or other fitting.
With the door cars removed take a fine flat screw driver and feel for a recess in the body of the latch. Its difficult to see so feel is best. There is a spring loaded plunger that needs to be pressed into the latches body, this done the latch will simply release.
The plunger itself is probably ony 2-3mm in diameter so difficult for us 'oldies ' to even see it, let alone contort our bodies, to be in a position to do so.

Thinking about it again, thats probably what I did (by accident!) and the lever came out.