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Can't seem to find type of spring to fix the door handle sag in any documentation. Have not taken door apart yet, hoping to do that when I have parts in hand

Suggestions please?

I'm not 100%, but I believe this spring is what you need: John Ulrich Packard door parts

You showed the URL but the link behind it is to John’s name so it won’t work. It should be the other way around! Should be: John Ulrich

Huh, unless Ken_P changed it - it worked fine when I clicked on it.
Re the springs, I bought those from John and if I recall correctly, the lock assembly is riveted together and I wasn't brave enough to grind the rivets and split the unit. Unless the springs are broken or missing, thorough lubrication of the lock guts made mine return as much as they do with the amount of play in linkage, etc. as there seems to be in most handles. I know this topic has been gone over multiple times before and a recurring suggestion is to heat the square bar of the actual door handle and give it a bit of a twist in the right direction. Mine come up to about 175 degrees of the horizontal so I left them as 'good enough'. Chris.

I replaced the springs in all four of my doors with the springs from John. At least on the 1937s, no disassembly of the mechanism is required. Once the assemblies were out of the car, it took nothing but a set of needle-nose pliers to remove the old springs and install the new.

Here are pictures with old spring and the new….

I replaced my door springs, too, and it did nothing to make the handle level. Mine had to come apart for chrome. We put them back together by pressing them tight, drilling a small hole and inserting a pin. Originally the shaft was heated and smooshed against the Escutcheon to hold it. John Ulrich knows how to do it right. Maybe he’d fix them for you or tell you the right way. I think Chris’ method of heat and twist works. I don’t think the shaft itself is pot metal.

I also thought the square in the latch that the shaft fits into wasn’t square enough. I replaced those and it didn’t help much. The main issue is how tight the escutcheon with the spring inside it is to the handle..my experience

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