I'm sure it's just wear, but occasionally the button will stick when you push it in to open the door... just put the key in and wiggle it and it'll pop back out, but I'm curious if anyone has rebuilt or replaced this on a Mangusta...
or if the part is shared with any other cars besides the early PB Pantera...
Thanks (as always)
MH
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Check carefully if the surround is bent, it will cause that issue. It's rubbing the shaft. Get it off the car & check it out. No big deal.
Larry Finch recommended Houdini Lock Lube to Me a while back, it works great! Might help You?
Seems the barrel has a bit of slop to it... If it sticks, its always toward the 7 o'clock position... Push it up and to the right and it pops out...
Attached are pics of it stuck in and normal... If it helps...
Thanks again...
MH
Hi Mike, sure looks like a rubbing issue and/or the 'button' pushing in so far that it gets slightly trapped by the surround. Either way if the button and surround were perfectly concentric it should not happen.
Here's a pic showing a surround from my old door skin. Between those crude OEM slots and the nature of the fastening system, there should be PLENTY of slop for readjusting the concentricity! Hope this helps, Nate
It's definitely pushing in just a bit too far and moving off center of the opening, catching the edge of the trim on it's way back out...
Your picture helps, shows me that trim piece is fairly thin... I was concerned there was a barrel kinda situation going on...
Looks like I'm pulling a door panel soon...
Thanks
MH
Mike,
Those door button mechanisms are indeed from another car! Just like a lot of the Goose stuff, DeT turned to the 66-69-ish Fiat 124 shelf to score these! So, now that makes them MUCH easier to find.....! HAH!!!!
Good luck! Great work! Those retention pieces looks like someone chewed them into submission!!! Hit up all the local Fiat dealers you can find!
......how many of these buttons did I walk past in the wrecking yards..........
M!ke, does the pushbutton on the passenger side deploy as deeply? Otherwise, this is probably just an alignment of the chrome valance. Under that chrome is the sleeve that guides the cylinder--the fit of the sleeve in the door sheet metal itself is pretty tight, and the fit of the cylinder itself should be tight as well...The sleeve is what should provide alignment to the chrome surround. I suppose somehow it may have shifted after 51 years---even though the mounting for the chrome is also pretty snug, you may be able to just slightly budge the chrome (so the cylinder doesn't get trapped behind the chrome).
Behind the cylinder is that latch, which was used on Alfa Spiders and Lancias for a few decades next... but see that arm that the cylinder pushes on is really stout, and unlikely is causing the problem here. So if the travel on the driver's side is the same as the passengers, and if there is no play up and down between the cylinder and sleeve, should just be a matter of aligning. There just cannot be much more that would go wrong, very little in the stackup here...But if really a nuisance, a little shim in between the arm and cylinder end (so that the pushbutton won't go so deep as to get stuck behind the chrome) and you are done...
(Steve, btw, except for the latch, the key and cylinder appear common with Alfa Giulia sprint (trunk) and of course the chrome pushbutton bezels with Pantera--but I haven't found any other use for the cylinder or the sleeve. Luckily, I have mine--but I was curious and looked and looked w/o succcess...Fiat 1100 trunk may be close, I'm assuming my set came back from being re-keyed (!) so have lost interest in buying from Ebay Italy to find out...!) Lee
