Re: Door Lock 53 Clipper

Posted by HH56 On 2017/5/13 10:22:35

Here are a couple of photos of the latch that I borrowed from a sale listing. One shows a small threaded rod the button attaches to. Note that rod is held by a clip to the moving part of the latch. The clip could have broken or become bent allowing the rod to detach and fall into the door or could have been removed for whatever reason. The second photo shows where everything connects on the latch.

There were two inside knob arrangements and I don't know which they were using in 53. The one style had a hard rubber button which pushed down over a straight piece of metal with barbs on the sides. To install or remove those buttons you had to heat the button so the rubber was soft enough and could be formed or pulled over the barbs. If that install/removal had been done several times the inside of the button was enlarged and could no longer tightly grip the barbs. The other arrangement has threaded knobs and a round shaft. Those just screwed on but the threads may be odd size. Hardtops used the same threaded arrangement except the rod was bent 90 degrees so the knob was on the face of the door panel instead of straight up thru the molding.

You need to remove the window molding to properly remove the door panel. There are some instructions on how to remove things in the body section of the 51-4 service manual starting around page 4.

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