Minor question...(Striker) August 06, 2007, 03:33:34 PM Ok, evidently our cars have bushings on the Door Striker bolt. After wondering why my passenger side door always seems to shut perfectly and without much noise, and my drivers side door is totally opposite, I noticed there was no bushing on the striker. I go down to Checker, buy a set of bushings, remove the striker assembly...and run into a problem. I can't get the bushing on. The "bolt" itself won't come out of the square metal adjustment limiting device. And the bushing is too small to fit over the head of the bolt. How do they (Ford!?) expect you to get the thing on??? Quote Selected
Minor question...(Striker) Reply #1 – August 06, 2007, 03:54:53 PM I've had the same problem.I just buy the entire striker from the line of Help! products. If I recall correctly, I paid about $7 for it.CougarSE once told me of some interchangeability betwixt Ford cars. Perhaps the rear door strikers on a junkyard Crown Vic or Taurus will work on our cars. The logic behind using a striker from a rear door is because, of course, it will be less worn.For what it's worth, the door striker assembly between my '86 and '96 were virtually identical. I have an MN12 striker in my '86 Cougar. Quote Selected
Minor question...(Striker) Reply #2 – August 06, 2007, 03:56:56 PM Heh...you think you have problems now...wait until you try to reinstall it in the door frame. The nut in the back probably fell down into the bottom of your rear quarter panel. Time to disassemble your rear panels for access...Would have been a lot easier to just buy a new striker with the plastic bushing already installed. The Help! section at Auto Zone, etc. has the correct ones for like $6 each.EDIT: Dammit Zach, quit doing that LOL. Quote Selected
Minor question...(Striker) Reply #4 – August 06, 2007, 04:07:02 PM It didn't fall. What's the part# at Autozone? Quote Selected
Minor question...(Striker) Reply #5 – August 06, 2007, 05:34:27 PM Someone get the spoon. It seems to hard to flip through the little help book.If it didnt fall, it will when you go to put it back in Quote Selected
Minor question...(Striker) Reply #6 – August 06, 2007, 06:22:37 PM Quote from: Tbird232ci;166482Someone get the spoon. It seems to hard to flip through the little help book.If it didnt fall, it will when you go to put it back inLOLI've never had one of the plates fall out of place... Course I don't mess with rusty turds... errr Birds...DMC, here's what I did to fix mine with the bushing you already have...First I cut a slot and found it was to large once I got it on the striker bolt... Next I sectioned out approx a 1/8" so it could be compressed to fit snugly on the bolt... Then I put a little RTV on the bolt and inside the bushing... Put it all back together, shut the door and let it setup over night... That was 4-5 years ago, it's still on there ... Quote Selected
Minor question...(Striker) Reply #7 – August 06, 2007, 06:50:11 PM http://www.dormanproducts.com/cgi-bin/vm91corp30r/pagepro_disp.w?sid=0x008e0f19&clt=hwrap1&pagepro=0x0020cc83&m-login-user-id=TEMP1296974hwrap1&vtime=67732&vtime=67732should be # 38445 Door Striker Bolt Thread size: M10-1.50 OE #: Brand: Dorman - HELP! Quote Selected
Minor question...(Striker) Reply #8 – August 06, 2007, 07:04:22 PM Maybe no one wants to say it, but there is also the possibility that the door hinge bushing are junk too. My car did the same thing, passenger side door shut like a dream, drivers side I had to slam shut mostly. Move you door up and down while its open and if it moves, I'd say its you hinge bushings.....and yeah....those are the real bitch to change. I had the front fenders off so it wasn't that bad. Just a thought.:birdsmily: Quote Selected
Minor question...(Striker) Reply #9 – August 06, 2007, 07:07:21 PM Changed out the Pins and Bushings....twice! There's still play in the door, leading me to believe the Hinges are shot. Too afraid to go to a bodyshop though.... Quote Selected
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