no handles

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:24 pm

one day i'll put up some photos but while i was in sydney over the weekend we shaved the door handles and boot lock off my ek sedan

Nekro63 · Post by **Nekro63** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:12 am

What did you use?? One of those autoloc systems??

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:27 pm

no i went lo tech a door lock button

(AUST)Mod · Post by **(AUST)Mod** » Sat May 24, 2008 5:06 pm

Is it that day yet Mick?

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Sat May 24, 2008 6:29 pm

funny you should ask i'm actually doing it again tomorrow

(AUST)Mod · Post by **(AUST)Mod** » Sat May 24, 2008 6:56 pm

Well well well, please hook me up with some detailed pictures, as it is very tempting to shave my handles before I repaint my doors

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Sat May 24, 2008 7:42 pm

(AUST)Mod wrote:Well well well, please hook me up with some detailed pictures, as it is very tempting to shave my handles before I repaint my doors

Your doing the painting yourself?

mez · Post by **mez** » Sat May 24, 2008 7:58 pm

hey ratbox is the problem is that your camera is in the car
and you cant get it out now

(AUST)Mod · Post by **(AUST)Mod** » Sun May 25, 2008 12:05 am

Yeah I will give the painting a go. My dad painted our 49 prefect in our garage, so I figure why not as we have all of the gear. Armed with Rosco's tips, I will venture into the painting world

ek61 · Post by **ek61** » Sun May 25, 2008 12:11 am

give it a shot

some of my best paint work has been in the home garage

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Sun May 25, 2008 11:27 am

(AUST)Mod wrote:Yeah I will give the painting a go. My dad painted our 49 prefect in our garage, so I figure why not as we have all of the gear. Armed with Rosco's tips, I will venture into the painting world

Same colors? Hope all turns out well, Trev

(AUST)Mod · Post by **(AUST)Mod** » Sun May 25, 2008 1:19 pm

same colours. I like them, and Malcolm has made them even cooler :p although I do want to do a pearl white flash

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:12 am

here you go

in the first pic the little tab that is circled needs to have a peice welded on with a hole in it or put a hole in it, that can be seen in the second pic all you need to do then is attach a rod pointing to the top of the door i used rear door lock rods, drill a hole in the top of the door around the same position as the inner door lock (on front doors) but on the outside, poke rod through put a nob on it, remove external handel weld up holes job done
one problem (that doesn't worry me) you can't lock the doors as the tab that now opens the doors attaches to the inner mechanism so when you press it down it unlocks the door

(AUST)Mod · Post by **(AUST)Mod** » Mon May 26, 2008 8:04 pm

Very nice guide Mick.
Perhaps I will go the Mr. Bean lock system of a padlock on my door like on his Mini

How do you go about doing the rear doors? Or do you just shave them and open them from the inside?

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Mon May 26, 2008 8:32 pm

that's all i do open from inside, not sure of the legalities of that though

NSW rules say have to be able to manually open door from outside
it kinda sucks to be kool (doesn't help being a tight arse) shaved the tailgate on the wagon aswell so now to open it i have to open the front door to open the back door to get in and reach over to open the tailgate from inside