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Installation and removal of Pawl Bushing which holds door latch rod
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mock31
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| Joined: 06/09
Posted: 07/16/09 07:32 AM
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Does anyone know how to remove the door Pawl Bushing in a 65 drivers door? I need to replace the bushing due to the rod continually popping out of the original Pawl Bushing. Need to remove original and replace it with a new one.
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jlg2002
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| Joined: 03/08
Posted: 07/17/09 12:51 PM
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Because of the angles involved, it's usually easier to remove the latch from the door and do this outside the car.
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pills46
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| Joined: 12/12
Posted: 12/27/12 09:28 PM
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If you look at an angle from the front of the door with a flashlight or gooseneck,the bushing is easy to see. Good luck I went back and read this after it cooled off and found that I was a bit hasty. First, to remove the pawl, first pull the linkage out of the socket, then grip the metal washer and pull it off. Just push the pawl toward the doorjamb and it will fall into the door. Note that the installation deatail in the manual is backward!!. Push the small end of the pawl through the latch from the back side doorjamb side) of the latch. The washers are;big black one on jamb side of lathc, pawl through the latch, then black, red and finally, the steel washer holds the assembly in the door.You will not need the retainer clips. Note the groove in the small end of the pawl. The linkage is retained by that groove. Here are some nifty tools to help in the intallation. A 1/2x 12" in strip of brass strap about 1/16" thick bent at 90 deg by 3/4". A piece of 3/4" wooden dowel with a 11/64" hole drilled in the end about 1/2" deep.Grease the end of the strap with wheel baring grease, put the big end of the pawl on it and place the big washer on the pawl. Feed the pawl through the latch from the back (jamb)side of the latch.Place the red plastic washer on the pawl, then the steel one.Be sure to leave the strap on the back of the pawl. Pull the pawl firmly against the latch,put the drilled dowel over the small end of the pawl and press the steel washer on until it snaps into place. Remove the tools and push the inkage into the slot in the pawl. Be sure to algn the rod with the groove in the pawl. the
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pills46
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| Joined: 12/12
Posted: 01/03/13 09:33 PM
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I just installed a pawl bushing on a 65 Mustang after market door latch. Made the nifty tool that I used to used in my P&B shop. I got the pawl in but, it was a real bear!.I have been working on cars for quite a few years(my first car was a 1929 Dodge.(Anyone know what a vacuum tank is?.).There didn't seem to be as much room behind the latch as there was forty years ago.I finally dreamed up a Kluge that worked even better than the tool.Remove the three lock retaining screws. Cut a piece of .032 soft steel safety wire about 18" long. Thread the wire through the front of the lock and pull it out the back side about 10" or so. Thread the black washer and the pawl on the wire and guide the front of the pawl into the latch. Thread the red plastic washer and then the steel washer onto the wire, reach behind the lock with two fingers and press the washers over the pawl while pushing the pawl toward the inside of the door. Take a 3/8" deep socket on a short extension and push on the washers while holding the pawl in place from the back until the washers snap in place. Pull out the wire and orient the slot in the pawl vertically. Hold the pawl in plce from the back ane push the rod into the pawl until it snaps in place. This really works guys!.Saves all that fishing for dropped washers.The final step, of course is to reinstall the retaining screws.Note that with a gooseneck flashlight, you can see the lock really well,also, with the wire, you can really orient the pawl in position.
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54packman
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| Joined: 11/09
Posted: 01/08/13 07:20 AM
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Vacuum tank, You mean fuel pump, works something like a toilet , the intake vacuum from the intake sucks the fuel into the upper tank, when its full, it flushes it to the lower tank where it gravity feeds to the carburator... My dad has a 1927 Star, built by Durrant
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