HAVE HAD A NICE OLD 83 245 FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS, THE REAR DRIVER'S DOOR HAS NEVER WORKED.......

GOT A DECENT LATCH FROM A LOCAL PNP, HAD IT FOR A WHILE AND DECIDED TO GIVE IT A GO TODAY.....

FINALLY GOT THE DOOR OPEN BY USING THE INSIDE LATCH AND REEFING ON IT, SOMETHING MY YOUNG SON DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH WEIGHT TO DO YET....

ONCE THE DOOR WAS OPEN, IT DISSASEMBLED EASILY, PULLED THE OLD LATCH, WHICH SEEMED GOOD, BUT SINCE I HAD THE MUCH NICER, LESSER USED GOOD LATCH I SWAPPED IT IN....I THINK THE 'PIN' HAD SLIPPED OUT FROM THE OLD LATCH SO I'M KEEPING IT AS A SPARE....ONCE I HOOKED THE PIN INTO THE NEW LEVER'S CATCH, IT WORKED GREAT....

HIT EVERY MOVING PART WITH WD-40, ADDED A LITTLE MOLY GREASE WHERE I COULD REACH ANY BEARING PARTS, SLAPPED IT BACK TOGETHER, AND IT WORKED FINE......FROM THE OUTSIDE.......

THEN I REMEMBERED VOLVO'S 'KID LATCH' SWITCH, FLIPPED IT AND I NOW HAVE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE LATCHES!!!!!

I'M AS HAPPY AS IF I HAD GOOD SENSE......

NEXT PROJECT WILL PROBABLY BE REWIRING THE REAR HATCH.....BUT FOR NOW, I'M CRACKIN A COLD ONE AND GRINNING............
--CARLOS