Hey guys I thought I'd share this. There is a video youtube by a guy Impalaman who fixes his w126 floppy door lever with a washer. I did the fix and thought I'd share my result.

My interior door lever was really getting loose on the SD. I thought ok, I will buy another. $100. Ouch. So I figured it was worth taking it out, drilling out the hole and adding a brass bushing so I can use it another forty years.

I ended up pulling it and I found the hole in the chrome lever section was still in pretty good shape. It was worn, but most of the flop was actually coming from the potmetal frame that bolts too the car. It was worn very unevenly.

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Hole in the chrome lever part is still in good shape. Ok, fair shape but too good to drill and bush.



Find uneven surfaces. Really worn out. This is where 90% of the droop comes from. I made them parallel again with a mill file. Then I added a washer.





You can barely see it but there's a washer jammed in there now.



That will save me $100. Or a trip to pick a part to get a rear door lever.

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79 300TD “Old Smokey” AKA “The Mistake” (SOLD)
82 240D stick shift 335k miles (SOLD)
82 300SD 300k miles
85 300D Turbodiesel 170k miles

Nice job. I need to do that to mine