How To Change Door Handle On 1988 Chevy Truck

Username	Post: How to replace outside door handle 1988 Silverado? (Topic#142990)
redlinetoys Senior Member Posts: 1543 Reg: 04-17-04 User Info Send Individual Topic View Profile	ten-25-06 03:fifteen PM - Mail service#1023849 I am trying to supersede the outside drivers door handle on the 88 Silverado. Afterward finally getting the inside door panel off and pulling the inside admission panel loose, information technology is obvious it gets more than complicated from here. At least it looks that way as you effort to see through window tracks, power window motor, power lock mechanism, etc. How the heck practise you get to the door handle?? Exercise you lot need to remove ALL of that stuff and the access panel start? Whatsoever tips on how to get at the handle? And once there, whatever tips on removing the handle?? Seems like a real pain in the rear compared to my old 55!!! http://public.fotki.com/redlinetoys/ Bob RedlineToys http://www.youtube.com/lookout?v=GslLKzhPth8 Email Written report

CDAUSA Needs to Leave More Fellow member Posts: 12906 Loc: Texas Panhandle Reg: 12-31-01 User Info Send Private Topic View Profile	Re: How to supercede outside door handle 1988 Silverado? 10-25-06 03:26 PM - Mail#1023850 In response to redlinetoys I probably shouldn't say, or take it with a grain of common salt as I don't know how shut yours is to mine. Seems like there is one nut, maybe 12 mm and yours may be 1/two", that y'all tin get to with 1/4" stuff----and a wobble, thru a triangular cutout in the upper door inner skin. Word of circumspection, tape anything together you might be using in there or you might become fishin And so there is a phillips screw head on the outer door jamb part of the door, above the latch I think, remove both of those and ease the handle out so you lot can become the lock rod/clip off. Been 3 years or and so since I did mine, might be a fiddling fuzzy on some of that. But I practice remember the fishin expedition Email Study
redlinetoys Senior Member Posts: 1543 Reg: 04-17-04 User Info Transport Private Topic View Profile	Re: How to replace outside door handle 1988 Silver 10-25-06 03:52 PM - Post#1023851 In response to CDAUSA Interesting!! Any other thoughts?? Gonna take to try this tomorrow in the cold driveway outside. http://public.fotki.com/redlinetoys/ Bob RedlineToys http://www.youtube.com/watch?5=GslLKzhPth8 Email Written report
someotherguy Senior Moderator Posts: 29548 Loc: Texas Reg: 08-01-03 User Info Send Private Topic View Profile	Re: How to replace outside door handle 1988 Silver 10-25-06 04:08 PM - Post#1023852 In response to redlinetoys Information technology'south a pain in the barrel no matter what. If y'all remove the unabridged door module, it's somewhat easier, but the rear window channel being spot-welded in identify is the real obstruction. By door module I mean the inner peel that has the window regulator attached. It comes out of the door as an assembly with the drinking glass intact. Non a trivial job but non terribly bad. One thing I establish is that yous tin leave the latch mechanism rod attached to the handle, since it's kind of hard to reach the prune with the handle still installed, and but have the bolts out of the latch mechanism. It will fall merely enough to permit you to remove/reinstall the handle with the actuator rod all the same attached. This task sucks, but it can be done without slicing into the inner door panel. I've seen them cut up like CDAUSA described merely I oasis't had to use that admission hole. Richard 06 Silverado ISS / 06 Silverado SS / 06 300C SRT8 Email Report
CDAUSA Needs to Go Out More Fellow member Posts: 12906 Loc: Texas Panhandle Reg: 12-31-01 User Info Transport Private Topic View Profile	Re: How to supersede outside door handle 1988 Silver 10-25-06 04:12 PM - Post#1023853 In response to someotherguy I probably said that incorrect, I didn't cut an admission hole, it was there from the factory. It all the same isn't lined up right merely with a wobble, it is like shooting fish in a barrel enough. Email Report
someotherguy Senior Moderator Posts: 29548 Loc: Texas Reg: 08-01-03 User Info Ship Individual Topic View Profile	Re: How to replace outside door handle 1988 Silver 10-25-06 04:40 PM - Post#1023854 In response to CDAUSA Really! At that place's a triangular access hole on ane of my panels, just it was clearly cut past a previous owner - very crude cut, not a factory affair. Nice and sharp. When I replaced that panel the one I took from some other truck didn't have the cut. Richard 06 Silverado ISS / 06 Silverado SS / 06 300C SRT8 Email Written report
patgizz Member #76 Posts: 8594 Loc: Cleveland, OH Reg: 01-thirty-00 User Info Send Private Topic View Profile	Re: How to supervene upon outside door handle 1988 Silverish 10-26-06 03:26 AM - Post#1023855 In response to someotherguy mine took me 10 minutes, i wonder what i did correct. E-mail Report
redlinetoys Senior Member Posts: 1543 Reg: 04-17-04 User Info Ship Private Topic View Profile	Re: How to replace exterior door handle 1988 Silver ten-26-06 01:49 PM - Post#1023856 In response to patgizz Patgizz, Try to remember! I am dying to know. From what I can tell so far, this is gonna be a pain. I am certain once you have done it once, it doesn't seem so bad, but right at present, I can't fifty-fifty meet or touch the door handle. I will spend some more time with it this weekend as the handle had to be ordered... I may just cut an access pigsty, butchery or non. I am not much in the mood for fooling around equally nosotros have replaced nearly $4000 worth of car parts on 3 cars in the concluding 2 months. Information technology is like the Bermuda Triangle hither right now. Cylinder heads, Clutch, Oil Pump and Pan, Benefactor, Water Pumps, Radiator, Clutch Fan, Etc, Etc. I hate to say information technology, but I am really ill of working on vehicles (even the fun ones...) http://public.fotki.com/redlinetoys/ Bob RedlineToys http://www.youtube.com/sentinel?v=GslLKzhPth8 E-mail Study