Customs i feel stoopid, i need some advice, door stuck shut

as posted above i was going to suggest having someone push in on it as you work the latch. i have had that problem before and it cured it. i think the latch gets caught in between closed and released and binds up.

 

You might try jacking up one corner of the truck. As the chassis flexes you might get the door to open. If it doesn't work on the first try then do a different corner. Try all four corners. Have some one else do the jacking as you pull and push on the door as the truck is being jacked. Jack the truck with the jack placed under the frame to achieve the most twisting/flexing motion. Use a jack that has enough height to really get the corner off the ground to the point that the corner on the other side starts to lift as well.

 

Totally agree, someone pushing on the outside of the door near the latch assembly as you work the mechanism.
They may have to vary the pressure as you are working the latch mechanism, but that should release it.
As a side note about outside door handles, in some states it is illegal to remove the outside door handle.
If there were an emergency situation, rescuers would not be able to save your life!
KK

 

What no car thieves where you live??? They'll get it open!

 

Ding,Ding,Ding ~ we have a winner. HRP

 

That's peculiar...I didn't see where he asked for anyone's opinion on shaved door handles? Glad it's not chopped too!

 

That latch don't have a lock does it?

 

Scroll down on this link and go to page two for the trials and tribulations of getting bear claw latches to finally work with a bicycle brake cable.

https://49fordcoupe.smugmug.com/The-Doors/

 

The lock on that latch is the same thing that opens the door from the inside. Pull it one way, it opens. Push it the other way, it locks. The lock for the outside original push button is built into the handle, it is not part of the latch assembly.

 

git er done!

 

BFH & crowbar - if you have a small floor or bottle try putting on running board under door and very gently jack up - sounds like shims applying extra pressure - get a straight clothes hanger down to latch thru glass opening to pull on latch?

 

Maybe move the inside door handle the opposite direction ... Sounds dumb but I have done dumb things before. If one direction opens and other locks... Ya never know!

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As has been mentioned, I would have someone on the outside push inward near the latch, while trying

On a 1952 GM AD pickup, there is only a lock cylinder on the curb (passenger) side, I think. Or maybe that is 1947-51. I forget.

The driver's door is latched when you push the inside handle forward from its at-rest position. Then you are supposed to get out the curb side, for safety.

 

The latch assemblies don't really have anything to do with the outside lock, which is in the handle. (in the pushbutton, actually). You can swap the handle with the lock from the pass side to the driver side, if you want. Not sure about AD trucks, but TF deluxe trucks had a key lock on both sides. Regular cheap trucks did not.

 

I FEEL STOOPID, I NEED SOME ADVICE, DOOR STUCK SHUT
Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by tred, Today at 6:29 AM.

You misspelled "stupid".

You'll just have to enter/exit the truck curbside, like they do in old movies.

Seriously, maybe you can get a nozzle straw in the jamb and hit it with some PB Blaster. Follow that with a few bursts of an air ratchet or rivet gun fitted with a flat mushroom tip on the inside of the door. The vibration along with the solvent may help unsieze the latch.

 

Anytime there's a door without handles that malfunctions you're gonna have that. Every single time.

Doing away with the handles is supposed to look cool, and it does until something stoopid happens and you can't get in your cool looking handless doors.

Sloppy engineering isn't cool, it isn't stoopid, it's designed to give you troubles, it's supposed to. Getting exactly what you asked for is cool. Just ask wisely

 

Ok.

 

Where, oh where is tred? Could he be locked in his truck? Haven't heard anything from him since 9:55 this morning. .....

 

As far as I remember, this pivot (shown on the passenger side) just goes straight back to unlatch.

Is it moving, or stuck?

 

Hate to burst your bubble but I had the same thing happen on my 66 Suburban (project).
Glad someone finally had the courage to ask as I felt as you, it just can't be that hard, right.
So I'll be watching.

 

cool lookin truck, hope you get the door to work..
...how about some more info on it, driveline, etc.thanks.

 

Hope Tred has somebody to check on him if he's locked in!

 

please remember, i bought the truck like this. it has history and does look kinda cool. i am not asking for trouble, but like my first marriage, finding plenty of it.
i will figure this out with the help of everyone here, and i'll keep everyone updated as to what i find.
totally unrelated, can anyone post pictures of a '52 chevy truck with no doors, kinda like the jeep wrangler guys do it?

 

After you get the door open, get a long cable that you can run to somewhere under the hood from the door latch assembly, so you have the ability to manually open one door, pick a side, WHEN your battery is dead.
If you have electric windows too, you may need to provide yourself with more OOOOHHHH SHITTTTTT protection and prevention.

 

Not a Chevy Man, but can you get to the Post Mount in the back of the Cab Jam?

 

Chevy/GMC truck latches from 1947 through 1959 were mainly designed to kill children. For years we did the drivers side door lock conversion (the locks only came on the passenger side) but now we won't let one out the door without Altman or some other bear claw latch. I dug back through some pictures of the lock conversion and maybe one will show you what has to be done. In the first picture the handle is down and the pawl is raised out of the notches which lets the latch rotate and the door open. In the second picture the pawl is down in the notches (notice the crappy fit) and the latch can't rotate so door is held shut--LOL. You may have to make a hole to pry the pawl out of the notches and rotate the latch but fortunately the mechanism is to the inside of the door. Explore all other suggestions before you start cutting.

 

Don`t feel too bad. When I was 16, I got the gas pump nozzle stuck in my gas tank filler neck. It was the first time I ever got gas for the car in my avatar. It took two drunks and 15 minutes later for them to free it.

 

First thing to do is get some blocks of wood, set on ground. use long 2x4 to GENTLY ,GENTLY pry up on door.if door has sagged any at all this may help.my passenger side used to get hung about half way open/latched. i used a screw driver though the already there hole to open door. but i cant remember what i did.. sorry. but try the prying up on door first

 

interesting, what year is that latch? The 55-59 latches don't have a pawl....I didn't see one in the pics of the reproduction 52-55 latches, either.

I never had problems with doors opening on 55-59 trucks. I guess I got lucky.