{"id":5043,"date":"2011-07-24T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T10:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2011-07-24T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T10:28:12","slug":"gm-door-control-linkage-retaining-clip-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/24\/gm-door-control-linkage-retaining-clip-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Door Control Linkage Retaining Clip Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>The upper latch on the work van back door suddenly ceased functioning. A quick examination revealed that the little plastic clip that holds the bent end of the pull\/pushrod into the latch mechanism had broken, so the L-shaped end of the rod had nothing to control its high propensity to wander around inside the door frame. Toyotas and Nissans usually have secondary guides to limit the wandering of the linkages, but all GM had was a fat piece of foam insulation that only acted to keep the rod from rattling once the plastic retaining clip broke. Not wanting to have the van out of service for such a minor thing, I made a replacement part using a piece of metal pallet strapping. All the tools used were whatever was lying around at work, which wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much. I would have tried making something out of zip-ties, but I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think of a solution in short order. If you had a little scrap Kydex or some other thermoplastic sheet, you could probably make something a lot nicer.<\/p>\n

Difficulty \u00e2\u20ac\u201c moderate<\/p>\n

Time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c about 15 to 30-minutes<\/p>\n

Tools required:<\/p>\n