Door strikers

[Tchajagos]

In my effort to get my doors to close flush and not rattle I have come to the conclusion that this thing behind the striker must be used for something. Anyone know what?

[MOSS2]

I think it is just to keep your belt loops, gun holster, or whatever from catching on it when you slide past.

[Tchajagos]

The doors seem to rattle when I get them flush. Like an in and out movement. Is this just the latch being loose or old? I kind of angled these loop things down a bit to try and keep the door from rattling and it seemed to help.

[hobbyturnedobsession]

Your missing the plastic bushings. O'Reilly or auto zone has em for like 6 bucks.

[1Hondalover]

Lots of folks putting 3/8 OD surgical rubber tubing inside the OE weatherstrip surround on the Super Duty with "solid" success. Obviously your striker bushing appears to be part of the problem.

Anyone here tried the tubing on their Bronco?

[Tchajagos]

Your missing the plastic bushings. O'Reilly or auto zone has em for like 6 bucks.

That's would explain a lot. I tried to put on a new striker from kragens but the threads were not wide enough and it wouldn't tighten down. And then the inside plate came loose and fell down in there. Haha never a dull moment.

[VintageIronFab]

I replaced my plastic pieces-- forget the cost but its cheap.

On a side note--- Do you have any issues opening the doors? If they dont just literally pop open then, the latch needs a good lubing and a reinforcement plate behind the handle where it bolts to the door. Reason being, the steel is probably cracked allowing it to flex.

[Tchajagos]

They do still pop open.

[PaulW]

Broncos are old and need some maintenance.
Instructions:
1) Use the stock pins with new plastic bushings. I hope you marked the location of the pin because Ford had it in the correct place when the sold it. If you did not mark it then its trial and error to put it in the correct place. Search for instructions.
2) Then if the door comes open replace of repair the mechanism in the door.
Look at the links and the latch for proper operation. If you cannot find the problem get a junk yard latch and test for proper operation.
When you are at it look for hairline cracks at the door post and on the door where the latch mechanism attaches.
The sheet metal at the hand operated lever often has cracks the can keep the linkage from properly operating the latch. This requires welding to fix. Search for the thread on how to. Fix all the cracks by welding.

To make the weather seal tighter buy new rubber or put backer rod inside the old rubber.
I tried to live with old rubber with backer rod and finally gave up and got new rubber. Works fine with nothing internal to the new rubber.
I still use external backer rod along the bottom where the door touches the rubber for a tighter fit there.

[philofab]

Buy strikers from the dealer. The auto parts store bushings are normally the wrong diameter and don't seem to work as well.

[cypher]

Buy strikers from the dealer. The auto parts store bushings are normally the wrong diameter and don't seem to work as well.

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