Door handles Mk2
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As Pete says, push the round chrome collar back towards the door card against the spring and it exposes the shaft of the door handle. There is a small tapered pin that you have to push out. Be careful where the pin goes when you push it out as it is small and drops to the floor where it has a mind of its own and will hide from you for days. Taking it apart is the easy bit. Trying to get the collar pressed back far enough to get the pin back in is the hard bit.
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But Glyn, not on the Mk2…the rear handle always points up, vertically. Yes, you may find cars with the handles in the horizontal position or pointing down, but these are not correct and are deductible Concours faults, and they are found primarily in poorly “restored” cars.
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But Glyn, not on the Mk2…the rear handle always points up, vertically. Yes, you may find cars with the handles in the horizontal position or pointing down, but these are not correct and are deductible Concours faults, and they are found primarily in poorly “restored” cars.
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This is indeed the illustration from the parts catalogue but there are many items in the illustrations, this being one of them, which do not correspond to final assembly patterns. If the rear door handle were fitted as the illustration shows (that is vertically downward) then it would interfere with the armest! The factory drawings cannot be used as guides for fitment.
The front door handles point downwards, but the rear handles upwards - see Nigel Thorley - an authority, or rather THE authority on the Mk2, and owner of 14 Mk 2 cars - in his guide to restoration: Original Jaguar Mk I/Mk II, the Restorers Guide, Bay View Books, 1990, especially page 48 which shows the "CORRECT POSITIONING OF THE DOOR HANDLE". See also pages 74 and 75.
This said, there were discrepancies made on the assembly line - a perfect example of that being the orientation of the red tell-tale above the front fender marker lights; the logical and correct orientation is with the flat surface facing the driver - because this allows the driver to verify that the light is functioning (!). But many cars left the factory with the tell-tale having the flat side facing forward - useless! or as the British would say, "not fit for purpose"!
Rear door with vertical positioning of the handle, pointing upward. If pointed downward as the factory drawing shows, it would be unusable - the hand and/or the handle would interfere with the armrest!
The difference between front and rear handle orientation:
The red tell-tale on the lamp pod:
The front door handles point downwards, but the rear handles upwards - see Nigel Thorley - an authority, or rather THE authority on the Mk2, and owner of 14 Mk 2 cars - in his guide to restoration: Original Jaguar Mk I/Mk II, the Restorers Guide, Bay View Books, 1990, especially page 48 which shows the "CORRECT POSITIONING OF THE DOOR HANDLE". See also pages 74 and 75.
This said, there were discrepancies made on the assembly line - a perfect example of that being the orientation of the red tell-tale above the front fender marker lights; the logical and correct orientation is with the flat surface facing the driver - because this allows the driver to verify that the light is functioning (!). But many cars left the factory with the tell-tale having the flat side facing forward - useless! or as the British would say, "not fit for purpose"!
Rear door with vertical positioning of the handle, pointing upward. If pointed downward as the factory drawing shows, it would be unusable - the hand and/or the handle would interfere with the armrest!
The difference between front and rear handle orientation:
The red tell-tale on the lamp pod:
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Glyn, every Mk 2 had ashtrays on the rear door armrests. But I do recognise that the South African-built cars may have, indeed did have, some differences from the ROW cars. Could the rear door panel/armrest be one of the differences?
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