70chall440
Well-Known Member
- Local time
- 11:22 AM
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2018
- Messages
- 4,557
- Reaction score
- 6,321
- Location
- Yelm, Washington
I believe most of this era of wagon is similar (could be wrong, not sure), but this is a manual window model and has a lever at the top right that when the window is down, you can push to the right to make the tailgate open as a door (swings open to the left) or push to the left and the tailgate opens like a pickup tailgate. On the car I am working on now, the tailgate will open like a door, but I cannot get it to open like a tailgate. I have removed the inner panel to look at the mechanisms and there is a rod that runs to the left latch but it will not move. I do see the "locking" mechanism that the window pushes down (window doesn't touch it now, I suspect there was a rubber piece on there or something originally) and pushing it down doesn't seem to have an effect on anything. I suspect the mechanism itself is frozen up and have sprayed it down with some penetrating oil.
I am just wondering if I am missing something. This tailgate is pretty rusty on the bottom, doesn't look bad from the outside but needs some help for sure. My client is trying to find a replacement but so far nothing better than what is there now.
Appreciate any advice or suggestions.
I am just wondering if I am missing something. This tailgate is pretty rusty on the bottom, doesn't look bad from the outside but needs some help for sure. My client is trying to find a replacement but so far nothing better than what is there now.
Appreciate any advice or suggestions.