Locking Mech Sliding Door - 79 RHD Panel

Seems the original posters is wrong
His should have the round threaded adjustable rod going from the front handle to the top of the rear mech and the bar going from the bottom of the rear mech to the spring crossed over then a rod to the locating hole on the door.


Mine seems correct apart from the spring not crossing over.

 

I can’t pull it any harder
This is using mole grips on it

 

The door works fine with it like this

 

if its not broke don t fixit

 

I could do with someone measuring the hooked rod that goes from the spring to the locating hole in the door.
All I can imagine is wrong with mine is that part is too short.

 

@ davidoft do you have one?

 

I know what your saying owen and if it hadn’t been pointed out to me I would have been happy with it.
Now I know it’s not as it should be it’s going to niggle me

 

I’ve found a pic of mine; the spring is the same as paras but there is a cable between the locks.

 

It’s as it should be, the spring is the same as mine, it’s not supposed to cross over.

IMO

 

There must be two types of spring

Mine and yours are open with no tension on them

The one in the pic below is crossed with no tension on it

 

I agree, ours unwind as they’re tensioned, the ones that cross over wind-up. Fit the panel and forget about it. Mine has worked for more than 40 years and I’m not about to change it.

 

I will be leaving it as it is

Cheers for putting pictures of yours up

 

Same as mine, with a cable.

 

At least @varrenwisher will be able to sort his out now

 

The parts list shows the change point from cable to rod between the locks but I can only find one spring when obviously there are (at least) two types. I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.

 

I’ve found other parts on my van that are on other vans but not in the parts catalogue so it’s not 100% accurate.

 

Hello Everyone so finally got the door to shut! @paradox you were correct my spring was the wrong way round. To everyone who helped thank you, it's the reason I'm on this forum.

 

I'm confused now as my slider locks and unlocks from inside, I have 2 cable assemblies, but I don't have a spring? Is mine the earlier version?

 

Yours is early