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Ozzie · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:19 pm Post subject: Rear Latches

I bought some rear latches of ebay and they were worse than mine.
The description said GOOD. Well they were only good for one thing.

Anyway I decided to have a good look at what fails on these.
Out with the 5mm drill bit

Well stuff me- how simple was that? So I did the same to the other one.
Looking at it, the crescent part is what wears out on the bottom and the left and right are intechangeable.

So I swapped the metal plates over, drilled out a clearance hole and countersunk one side and tapped a 6mm hole in the other.
Cleaned up the parts, greased and assembled.
(be wary of the spring- mine shot off to the nether regions of the shed)
Done- a new lease on life for the latch.

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!tom · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:55 am Post subject:

Pictures have died.
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Ozzie · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:22 pm Post subject:

4 year old post- got no doubt

ended up buying new double latches when I went to the UK, never had a problem since.
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Porsche 924 1984 (UK import) NA
Its AUTO and its BLACK
Montego Black on black/red
Engineer of Electro/Mechanical Systems Maintenance