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Guys,

 

The subject truck was my dad's.  He passed away earlier this year.  I'm the executor of his estate, and I just retitled the truck.  I am now the owner.

 

Nice truck, not worth the price (losing my old man).  Since about 2018 I have been helping him with this truck.  I have been all over it, like an ant on an anthill.  I have done a lot to the truck, mainly just repair.  Repairing it back to OEM.  There's no custom downgrades on it, it is OEM, like it just drove out of the showroom.  92,000 miles.

 

The latest thing I did was replace the rear shocks.  It made a great improvement.  New tires, alignment, new front shocks, new rear shocks, it drives really well.  Oh I forgot, the only downgrade on it is the Borla muffler I took off my 72 Plymouth Scamp and gave to my dad and he had that installed.  It does sound good.  Compared to the stock truck, it sounds like it put on its big-boy pants.

 

Anywho, now that the truck is driving much smoother, I am hearing a rattle from inside the driver's door.  I just got through removing the door trim, looking for anything loose.  I did find 1 very loose bolt.  I tightened that up.  Beat and banged around on the door, didn't hear anything else.  I also got the lock rod greased up and placed back in its guides so it wouldn't rattle.  Got it all put back together, took it for a ride, and damned if it wasn't just as bad.  So I gotta go back in and dig deeper.  I suppose it is in the window regulator.  I kick myself for not digging deeper while I had it apart.  But that one bolt, and putting the lock rod back in the guides seemed to do the trick, seemingly verified by me beating and banging all over the door and not hearing a rattle.

 

Before I put it all back together, has anyone else chased down a rattle in the door, and have a suggestion?  Is it the window regulator?

 

 

7milesout

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2 hours ago, 7milesout said:

Guys,

 

The subject truck was my dad's.  He passed away earlier this year.  I'm the executor of his estate, and I just retitled the truck.  I am now the owner.

 

Nice truck, not worth the price (losing my old man).  Since about 2018 I have been helping him with this truck.  I have been all over it, like an ant on an anthill.  I have done a lot to the truck, mainly just repair.  Repairing it back to OEM.  There's no custom downgrades on it, it is OEM, like it just drove out of the showroom.  92,000 miles.

 

The latest thing I did was replace the rear shocks.  It made a great improvement.  New tires, alignment, new front shocks, new rear shocks, it drives really well.  Oh I forgot, the only downgrade on it is the Borla muffler I took off my 72 Plymouth Scamp and gave to my dad and he had that installed.  It does sound good.  Compared to the stock truck, it sounds like it put on its big-boy pants.

 

Anywho, now that the truck is driving much smoother, I am hearing a rattle from inside the driver's door.  I just got through removing the door trim, looking for anything loose.  I did find 1 very loose bolt.  I tightened that up.  Beat and banged around on the door, didn't hear anything else.  I also got the lock rod greased up and placed back in its guides so it wouldn't rattle.  Got it all put back together, took it for a ride, and damned if it wasn't just as bad.  So I gotta go back in and dig deeper.  I suppose it is in the window regulator.  I kick myself for not digging deeper while I had it apart.  But that one bolt, and putting the lock rod back in the guides seemed to do the trick, seemingly verified by me beating and banging all over the door and not hearing a rattle.

 

Before I put it all back together, has anyone else chased down a rattle in the door, and have a suggestion?  Is it the window regulator?

 

 

7milesout

in older my 1999 new style, I did hear a rattle but what it was came down to one of two things, a broken clip that I found, and two the rod that locks/unlocks the door. I replaced them both and the rattle went away.

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Get a 3" inspection (telescoping) mirror, Tape it to a flashlight and extend the mirror out beyond the end of the flashlight a little. Now get that setup in the door and manipulate the mirror and yourself so you can look around inside the door.

Make sure there is no glass in the bottom of the door. When a door glass it's really hard to get it all out.

There's are 3 rods in the door all held in place by clips/keepers One for the outside door handle, one for the inside door handle and one for the lock inside the door. It could be one of these clips have become work and the rod is flopping around in the clip/keeper. You can find new clips/keepers at rock auto, Amazon etc.

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