Had the panel off the passenger side front door the other day, trying to figure out why it's so hard to open the door from inside. It appears that the inside handle mechanism is fine, and the nice linkage rod that goes aft to the latch is fine, and it does actuate the latch, but not sufficiently. It seems that the linkage rod would like to be shorter. I put a bit of a bend in it to shorted it a bit, and it does help -- you have to lean into the door while pulling pretty hard on the handle, but now it will pop open so I'm going in the right direction. But I need more. I can't see if there is any means to effectively shorten the rod or otherwise adjust the pesky thing so my kids can bail out quickly when I pull up in front of their school.
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20 years ago