have you ever had to take a front ke70 door handle out and try to put it back in? if so tell me how you did it cause i have no idea how they expect that to all work, ta.

Two bolts, inside the door?

Pretty sure.

Stupid clips for door mechanism that are garanteed to break no matter how careful you are.

 

EDIT: Ill see if my manual will help, and take a photo

EDIT: Nope

Edited November 25, 201015 yr by blzbub666

thanks for replying but thats not whats stopping me from doing it,

the handle connects to a threaded arm, and somehow ive got to wind the

entire handle to the right height and theres just no room to do it anywhere.

seriously seems like a bullshit way to have to do it but hey i might be

doing it wrong too.

Ask SLW40 he just replaced one pretty sure.

Do you take off the clip so it disconnects to that arm?

I've done it ages ago and it wasn't hard, just fiddley. I don't really remember how it was done though.

See thats just the thing, theres 4 arms that come away from the actual shutting mechanism

And they go to,

 

1: Interior Door Lock

2: Interior Door Handle

3: Exterior Door Lock

4: Exterior Door Handle

 

and yes youd think that you could simply pull the rod off and turn it which would be a peice

of piss to do, but of the 4 rods you can only pull 3 of them away from the mechanism, and

guess which one isnt removable...number 4: Exterior Door Handle! And the reason i had so much

trouble with it was because in order to connect the rod to the exterior door handle you need to

thread the rod into the handle and basicly turn the entire unit inside the door around 15 times

to connect it and theres little to no room to do that which just made a small job painful.

 

But thanks for the help as usual guys its now been done, i still think its a little odd that the

only rod that you can't disconnect from the mechanism is the one that you would really need to

disconnect to fit the exterior door handle...very unlike Toyota to be tricky to work on.

i took all my handles out when i did the respray on my car and i don't really remember having any dramas like this. I thought all of the rods had those righ angle bends on the ends then they went into those white clips. Hmmmm... i think you might be missing something man, i'm nowhere near my car either so i can't take a pic.

I've done this many times, never encountered a problem...

 

Remove control rods from latching mechanism, unbolt handle, reverse procedure to install handle

peice of piss mate, 2 bolts inside the door, and a clip that if you get a flatblade screwdriver in between the plastic and the handle it should pop off.

 

Either that or where the plastic clip has slots in it to expand you can get the screw driver into that and gently turn it sideways and open it while pulling the rod away from the handle :)

 

works for me everytime

When i started this thread i was trying to put them back in and i just

found that i couldnt seperate the shutting mechanism from the threaded

rod that goes to the exterior door handle so i had to bolt the handle

to the door with the 2 10mm bolts which was easy. but then the only way

i could get the thread to bite into the handle from the inside of the

door was to turn the whole unit inside the door and then reconnect the

three rods once i had bolted the mechanism back into the door.

 

Oh well either way i got there and its done so thanks for all your help

as usual guys.