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Side compartment hardware

June 03, 2016, 06:01:22 pm

Working on compartment doors, I have the vertical style side compartment door s and there are 2 types of upper latches on doors which one is correct and can I get more of them, here are some pictures.

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Reply #1 – June 03, 2016, 06:07:21 pm

I believe pic A to be the correct one, although pic B may be a replacement version...Mine have the ones in Pic A...Just took off the door for hail damage repair...Will be putting it back on tomorrow.

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Reply #2 – June 03, 2016, 06:15:19 pm

I also believe the first picture to be correct. Got an assortment of replacement parts from FOT about 2 years ago.

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Reply #3 – June 03, 2016, 06:34:24 pm

Art, ours has the ones in your first pic also. If push comes to shove, you can always use a bolt of the same size for thet shaft. Just double nut it so it won't come off.

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Reply #4 – June 03, 2016, 06:52:15 pm

I also have the studs shown in your first picture.

The stud shown in the second picture looks like it has a substantially larger diameter and I wonder if someone install it to compensate for a worn latch on the door that mates with the stud or found a completely different replacement latch set from some other bus components.

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Reply #5 – June 06, 2016, 09:56:05 am

Thanks'  Guys 

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Reply #6 – June 06, 2016, 10:09:37 am

I have replaced some of my door pivot or lock bolts, and when I could find them, use shoulder bolts.  When I could not find ones like I took off that were broken, I went with non shoulder, and drilled out the mounting holes.

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Reply #7 – June 06, 2016, 11:42:22 am

Art,

We had the same situation with our '95. Foretravel Parts came through after some initial confusion and shipping wrong part. I returned the part with my photo and got a refund, a phone call AND two complimentary, correct striker studs sent by FT Parts. Pretty pleased with the outcome!

Good luck! P

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