The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Paint and Body Shop Doors Exterior Door handle spins on shaft

Help is a click away!

VEHICLE
INFORMATION
KITS

at the

GM Heritage Center
All the details are here.

Searching the Site - a click away

New here ??? Where to start?

Click on image for the lowdown.

====

Who's Online Now

1 members (Samantha), 45 guests, and 4 robots.

Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod

Forum Statistics

Forums66

Topics128,179

Posts1,057,159

Members48,465

Most Online14,466
Apr 26th, 2026

Step-by-step instructions for pictures in the forums

Brad Allen's photos

AD Chevy Trucks

Pictures galore

Over 6,000 pictures

Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips.

Check them out!

Lots of work on Brad's part ... pure enjoyment (and references) for you!

Big Thanks!

THANKS!

For helping keep this great
old truck web site
on the Internet for

over 30 years!

and not clogged down
with Ads!

Again, thanks!

Print Thread

Exterior Door handle spins on shaft #1272140 07/11/2018 5:11 PM
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 49 MD T Too Tall Wrench Fetcher
Too Tall Wrench Fetcher T Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 49 MD	51 1/2 ton. The passenger handle spins on the spindle shaft if I use very much force. What's the play here? Do I disasemble the works or is there something obvious I'm missing?

Re: Exterior Door handle spins on shaft Too Tall #1272152 07/11/2018 6:36 PM
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,261 So Cal MNSmith "Hey! I sound like Darth Vader!!
MNSmith "Hey! I sound like Darth Vader!! Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,261 So Cal	If you decide to disassemble it, you could pin the shaft. Attachments 1952suburban283.jpg (59.6 KB, 120 downloads) 1952suburban284.jpg (51.66 KB, 116 downloads) 1952suburban285.jpg (40.05 KB, 109 downloads) 1952suburban286.jpg (47.09 KB, 103 downloads) Mark 1951 Chevy Suburban In the Stovebolt Gallery Lots and LOTS of pictures Project Journal --- 10 pages worth!

Re: Exterior Door handle spins on shaft Too Tall #1272165 07/11/2018 8:48 PM
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 49 MD T Too Tall Wrench Fetcher
Too Tall Wrench Fetcher T Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 49 MD	Winner winner chicken dinner. That's a great fix.

Re: Exterior Door handle spins on shaft Too Tall #1272816 07/17/2018 2:58 PM
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 49 MD T Too Tall Wrench Fetcher
Too Tall Wrench Fetcher T Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 49 MD	.......and done Y'all relax, world order restored.

Hop To

Link Copied to Clipboard