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FIGURE 18
3. If the travel is less than 1/16", the handle shoulder screw
should be shortened by grinding off the inner end. If the
push button travel is more than 1/4", the shoulder screw
should be lengthened by installing a drive screw in the
inner end at (Y).
NOTE: If the shoulder screw (L) is not drilled for a drive
screw, it should be removed from the handle and drilled
as shown at (R). Excess travel can be corrected by install-
ing one of the three drive screws listed below as required.
a. If dimension (S) is more than 5/16" but less than 3/8",
use drive screw Part No. 171221.
b. If more than 3/8" but less than 7/16", use screw No.
171222.
c. If more than 7/16", use screw No. 71249.
d. Dimension (X) for sedan front doors should be 51/64".
e. Dimension (X) for sedan rear doors should be 1-11/32".
f. Dimension (X) for all broughams and coupes should be
29/32".
Super model outside door handles are of a grooved
design as shown at (H), Figure 18, while the handles used
on the Commodore models are smooth and oval.
If door lock operates normally by depressing the outside
handle push button but
cannot be released by operating the inside remote control
handle after the car has been standing outside in cold weath-
er, it is probably due to water having soaked the cloth
silencer surrounding the remote control operating link caus-
ing it to freeze to the door inner panel. This can be perma-
nently corrected by thoroughly saturating the silencer sleeve
with chassis grease.
DOOR HANDLE ADJUSTMENT
(500 Pacemaker Models and
All Models 1951 thru 1954
Except 1C, 1D, 2C, 2D and 3D)
The outside door handles for the 500 model Pacemaker
and the door handles for the "1951 "A" Series all Models",
are identical except for the distance the end of the adjustable
plunger (Y), Figure 19, projects beyond the base of the han-
dle.
To adjust, proceed as follows:
a. All sedans (front doors) turn plunger in or out as
required to obtain a dimension of 23/32" at (X).
b. A 11 broughams and coupes, this dimension should be
51/64".
c. All sedans (rear doors), this dimension should be
1-7/32" at (V).
FIGURE 19
NOTE: For 500 Pacemaker models and all 1951 "A" Se-
ries, the sedan front doors and brougham and coupe doors
use the handle with the contour as shown at (N), Figure
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