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![]() Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Posts: 5,817
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ARGH! My driver's door handle broke.
This was my afternoon:
I needed to cut some cement blocks and trim up the asphault in my driveway before the pavers come to finish my sewer line project, so I left work early, grabbed the truck, and ran to the equipment rental place to get a saw and a couple of blades. I pull into the parking lot, and go to lock my door. Something's wierd with the button on the handle, so I push it, and it immediately breaks with the hardware falling into the inside of the door with a loud CLANG. I should have taken this as a warning. It takes me forever to get the saw, and the store lost the blocks I had on special order, so I waste 45 minutes waiting around. After forgetting to roll down my window I climb through the passenger side to get behind the wheel. I rush home (daylight is fading), and set up to make the cuts. Then I tried starting the saw. It's a basic chainsaw engine. Choke, compression release, trigger with lock, and a rope you pull. EASY. The damn thing wouldn't start. I pulled on that thing forever. Since the dude started it in the parking lot before handing it to me, I thought maybe I was being a dumb-ass and there was some hidden trick. I called the shop and explained how I was trying to start it, and of course he tells me I was doing everything right. Realizing I didn't have enough time to mess with the spark plug, etc. I decided to give it another try. ...so I hang up determined as ever. I give it a yank and it FIRES! But then it sputters and quits before I can open the choke, so I go to start it again, and the damn ROPE HANDLE BREAKS OFF IN MY HAND. You could literally hear the steam comming off my head. I just dropped the handle next to the saw, and paced for a couple of minutes trying not to blow a fuse. Luckily the rental place took the saw, and didn't charge me. By then it was dark. A full afternoon wasted. Of course I forgot to roll down my window again, so when I went to go home I had to crawl in through the passenger side before I could go home.... What a day.
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'69 3/4 ton C20 2wd-350ci/TH400 '69 3/4 ton Custom 20 2wd-350ci/4sp Manual '99 2wd 5.7 Chevy Tahoe Seattle, WA. |
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#2 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Posts: 1,492
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Usually you can still stick your finger in the opening and make the door handle work if you are talking about the outer door handle. This has happened to quite a few old ones I have had.
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Oregon
Posts: 2,512
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I have used Deans idea.
I've seen these trucks go for months maybe years with people using finger to reach the tab inside door after button has failed.
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Back from the Dead
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Salem, Oregon
Posts: 522
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The button on my Drivers side fell out while I was going down the road. Drove it for about 4 months like that, just kept an allen wrench in my pocket to pop it open. I needed a new handle anyway, got a nice chrome repro from Wes...much nicer
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#5 |
Out of the carpool lane.
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Clark Co, WA
Posts: 5,673
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..and I thought those kinda days only happened to me! Anyway, my push button fell out while I was driving about a year ago. I'm still using my unlocked wing window to get in, lol.
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1968 C-10 SWB, 5.7 Vortec/700R4/3.73 posi, Torch Red 1968 Camaro, 250/Powerglide, all original (No, I'm not gonna drop a 350 in it!...Jeez!) 2000 Honda VFR in the faster yellow! 2008 Husqvarna TE-610 1967 C-10 SWB 'Six Appeal'-Gone but not forgotten... |
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#6 |
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 117
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Yeah, Heck, both of mine are like that!!
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Just a little crazy 1970 chevy full size half ton, soon to be one ton running gear, 350 turbo, 205 case, 355c.i. |
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
Posts: 2,693
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Yup, I been fingering mine for about 6 months now.
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