Shaved the door handle and used the rod off the door handle to run it to the door lock.
Shaved door handles good or bad.
This is a simple and some what clean way to shave doors in the link.
A shaved door has a steel cable for the latch release inside the door and a solenoid.
Or it will eventually crack and fall out especially as much as u put on there and the fact that the doors are always opening and closing.
Anyone with any common sense that wants shaved door handles should run as far away from this diy as possible.
Fortunately several of the early customs from the mid and later part of the 1940 s with shaved door handles have survived.
On the 49 i didn t want any electric gizmos for fear of them going bad and locking me out.
But how do you get the door open reliably without a door handle outside you ask.
The solenoid does the real work of unlocking and opening car doors.
I am having a problem with my actuators not fully opening the door handle.
If i have the door open it pulls fine and the interior door handle swings all of the way open as it should.
Shaving your door handles is one of the cleanest most stylish mod s one can do.
Shaved door handles actuator problem i have an 82 chevy truck with shaved door handles.
However if i close the d.
Had to cut it in one place and make a bend.
When these cars were restored in recent years we had a chance to take a good look how the custom car builders from the 1940 s handled the shaved door handles and push button doors.
A clean line to complete your new paint job is just what the car show ordered.