[teamfour]

My driver door latch is jammed. The handle moves forward, but the plunger won't back out of the hole. Any suggestions?

 

[Eric Jacobs]

this happened to me and others...take the cover off the latch and dissassmeble the unit. You will see that the latch is just a press fit design...now use your engineering skills and take a bolt and holt the pieces together and it will work much better....

Eric

 

[PeterG]

Had the same problem with both latches. Original assembly was atrocious. I dismanlted them, honed all the parts until they fit without jamming, greased where needed and re-assembled.

PG
FFR2503

 

[Wade]

Here's how I fixed mine...

Door Latch Fix

 

[John Phillips]

Timely darn post, thanks guys! I was just remembering my old door latch problems and half-baked solutions when road tripping my new Phoenix yesterday and having latch trouble. I'm on it now. Thanks again!