Little rubber door thingy

[TunnelFear]

how to describe this one....

when you open your front driver side door, theres a bar with a circle on the end of it that the door hooks onto. the rubber layer over the bar fell off just now, and i cant shut my door...any ideas?

 

[Rick]

Get a new one from Ford or from a bone yard. To remove it you need a Torx bit and you need to get behind it by removing the trim from the B-pillar.

 

[dejello]

Got replacements for mine at the local auto store if it's what I'm thinking about.. But I don't remember having to remove any panels for the front doors

 

[TunnelFear]

ho hum, any quick temp fixes till the weekend?

 

[dejello]

Uh, tie one end of string or something around the handle and the other end on something? Luckily when my passenger side screwed up, I had my brother to hold the door till we got home

 

[94EBexplorer]

you talking about the plastic sleeve thing over the bar the dor latches too?

 

[TunnelFear]

ya

 

[94EBexplorer]

how about taking a peice of some sort of vac hose thats rubber..... and as long as the peice and cutting in down the middel and slipping it over the bar and zip tieing it on the far ends till the weekend...... just a little idea no clue if you can find a hose with the same OD as the plastic sleeve.... but it would work.

 

[TunnelFear]

hmm, thanx for the idea......ill be trying to fix it tomorrow morning..waaaaay too cold right now. so if anyone else has some suggestions also, feel free to open your yap

 

[MONMIX]

All that rubber thing does is eliminate rattle.
If you are not concerned cut it off and get on with life.
Me personally I would replace it with new , but that is just me.

 

[TunnelFear]

if all it does is eliminate rattle...then why wont the door shut? any sugggestions?

 

[TunnelFear]

well, i figured out how to get the door to close...it wasnt caused by that rubber thingy, thanx Monmix , its cuz my door hangs down too low and isnt meeting up with the latch

 

[dejello]

I didn't even think of that.. But yeah, that sounds right.. My front passenger door is missing something in the lower hinge, and so it hangs down low.. If you don't slam the door, it doesn't shut..