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HDowse · 05-24-2016, 06:00 AM

I can't figure out how to remove the inside door handle and window crank on the driver's door. Are they held on with pins or clips? If it's pins, how do you push in far enough to get to the pin? Maybe that's why Macs sells the special tool?
The window garnish has to come out also. I removed all the screws but the garnish is really tight in there. Any hints? Am I correct that the vent window comes out with the garnish? Thanks, Hunt

big job · 05-24-2016, 06:29 AM

Push in the top with screw driver and use a ice pick tap the pick a little then push
the bottom in with screw driver and push the pin out. Then of course the pin
goes into the big sink hole in the floor lost for ever (mine did) get the top of the
garnish to pop out then the tricky part is to move the vent back & forth to clear the
window runner while lifting up the whole thing ain't easy almost as it grew in there.
I just did that to find a rattle the lost pin I just snipped a piece of a coat hanger.
sam

HDowse · 05-24-2016, 07:34 AM

Sam, does the pin line up with the length of the handle? Or do you have to search for it all around the shaft? Thanks for the tip.

FireEngineMike · 05-25-2016, 05:29 PM

There were two sets of holes 90degrees apart in the handles on my 1940 panel. I do not remember orientation. The pin was fairly obvious. Hold a flashlight in your third hand.

woodiewagon46 · 05-25-2016, 05:34 PM

I use the old fashioned spring loaded clothes pin to push back the escutcheon. I remove the spring and use the two tapered wood pieces. The wood won't scratch the chrome and allows the spring in the bezel to compress. The pin should come out fairly easy with a pin punch.

russcc · 05-25-2016, 06:42 PM

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Just went through that process. The wood clothes pin trick is great idea unless you have at least three hands to hold the escutcheon and push the pin out at the same time. The pin orientation in the door handle is vertical, and the pin pushes up into a pocket in the overhang on the handle at the top. The pin hole in the window crank handle is at 90 degrees to the length of the handle. I use a 3/32" pin punch, which gives you the push, with a little wiggle room.

fordor41 · 05-25-2016, 06:55 PM

I use a 1/4" piece of plywood with a slot that will compress the escutcheon and fit over the handle part that has the pin. Push the pin out and it falls into the slot of the plywood.

05-24-2016, 06:00 AM	#1
HDowse Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Hancock, New Hampshire Posts: 375	'40 inside handle removal I can't figure out how to remove the inside door handle and window crank on the driver's door. Are they held on with pins or clips? If it's pins, how do you push in far enough to get to the pin? Maybe that's why Macs sells the special tool? The window garnish has to come out also. I removed all the screws but the garnish is really tight in there. Any hints? Am I correct that the vent window comes out with the garnish? Thanks, Hunt

05-24-2016, 06:29 AM	#2
big job Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Dighton, Mass Posts: 1,230	Re: '40 inside handle removal Push in the top with screw driver and use a ice pick tap the pick a little then push the bottom in with screw driver and push the pin out. Then of course the pin goes into the big sink hole in the floor lost for ever (mine did) get the top of the garnish to pop out then the tricky part is to move the vent back & forth to clear the window runner while lifting up the whole thing ain't easy almost as it grew in there. I just did that to find a rattle the lost pin I just snipped a piece of a coat hanger. sam

05-24-2016, 07:34 AM	#3
HDowse Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Hancock, New Hampshire Posts: 375	Re: '40 inside handle removal Sam, does the pin line up with the length of the handle? Or do you have to search for it all around the shaft? Thanks for the tip.

05-25-2016, 05:29 PM	#4
FireEngineMike Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Webster, NY Posts: 215	Re: '40 inside handle removal There were two sets of holes 90degrees apart in the handles on my 1940 panel. I do not remember orientation. The pin was fairly obvious. Hold a flashlight in your third hand.

05-25-2016, 05:34 PM	#5
woodiewagon46 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Long Island,NY Posts: 1,555	Re: '40 inside handle removal I use the old fashioned spring loaded clothes pin to push back the escutcheon. I remove the spring and use the two tapered wood pieces. The wood won't scratch the chrome and allows the spring in the bezel to compress. The pin should come out fairly easy with a pin punch.

05-25-2016, 06:42 PM	#6
russcc Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 2,871	Re: '40 inside handle removal Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) Just went through that process. The wood clothes pin trick is great idea unless you have at least three hands to hold the escutcheon and push the pin out at the same time. The pin orientation in the door handle is vertical, and the pin pushes up into a pocket in the overhang on the handle at the top. The pin hole in the window crank handle is at 90 degrees to the length of the handle. I use a 3/32" pin punch, which gives you the push, with a little wiggle room.

05-25-2016, 06:55 PM	#7
fordor41 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: elmira,ny Posts: 1,517	Re: '40 inside handle removal I use a 1/4" piece of plywood with a slot that will compress the escutcheon and fit over the handle part that has the pin. Push the pin out and it falls into the slot of the plywood.