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I've been fussing around with my door remotes for longer than I care to admit. The interior door handles and shafts are chewed-up and the handles won't stay in place. It seems to make sense to replace the remote and the interior handle at the same time. The vendors have them, anyone using these reproduction parts? If so, how are they working for you?

Thanks,

the repo remote on my 50 works great

I didn't think they offered them for your year?

As far as your experience with the repos goes, that's good to hear.

It looks like the vendors advertise them as '47-'54 or '47-'55. I believe that my passenger side is an original as you push it forward to open and pull back to lock it (as the operator's manual says). The driver's side operates exactly opposite like the '48-'54s, sooooo..... I'm assuming the repo remotes will work? I may be finding out real soon!

The repo will work like your drivers side

Not like your original passenger,

Youll have to install it like the shop manual states and glue a small spacer to the door to hold out the door panel


...example...

Thanks DADS50,

Any idea how thick the spacer should be?

I dont remember how thick it was

I just used a piece of foam from some packaging

...click...

...click...

I only placed one but the diagram calls for two

Okay, got it!

Thanks again,

Does anyone know if these spacers are available anywhere?

These spacers are nothing special. The originals where made of a dense black foam which melted and oozed away over time.
Any kind of dense foam of about 1/4" thick should match what was originally used.
These spacers were an "oh crap!" moment for GM when they changed the operation design to pull-to-open in '48. Moving the trailing edge of the arm above the horizontal crease in the door necessitated the spacers so that the arm would clear the cardboard.
They are not needed on '47 arms which ride in the horizontal crease in the door, thus not interfering with the cardboard.
Carl

I just went thru the same ”oh crap” realization as 52Carl. On my ‘52 chevy, the interior door handles would not spring back. Although the whole assemblies need to be replaced, I wanted to educate myself on the operation so I could eventually order the right parts. I took both door panels off and found that the passenger side worked fine without the panel in place. I noticed the horizontal door channel that 52Carl talked about and thought the whole assembly was mounted upside down. as you already know it then worked but you pushed the handle forward to open. Well that won’t work. I then looked at the Truck Assembly Manual and saw that it was mounted as I originally found, it but was missing the spacers. I temporally installed a couple of wooden shims and that solved the problem. Mine needed to be a little larger than 1/4” to clear the operator. You can measure yours to get the needed clearance.

The drivers side spring is broke so no joy there.

Thx for the very valuable info Carl! I’ve ordered a couple ABS plastic pieces that are 1/8” and 1/4” thick so we’ll see which works better!

Thank you again,
Derek