Miles71

Need Door Open repeater.
The shaft used to hold the inside door open handle is sometimes called the Door Repeater.
My drivers side door repeater has a broken spring.
The door opens fine, but you need to manually push the lever back down to close/latch the door.
The broken spring is built into the assembly and cannot be replaced.

I called a few of the big cars company's and no-one carries the Door-repeater for the 1970-1972 cars with "Chrome Back-plate Arm Rests".
It seems the Door-repeater comes in 2 different Shaft-Lengths.
The Short-Shaft is used on 68-69 cars.
The longer shaft (Approximately 35.5 millimeters) is required for CS that use the common "Chrome Back-plate Arm Rests".
The Big stores only sell the Short-shaft, for cars that do not have a back-plate behind the arm rest.
Personally, I do not recall ever seeing a 70-72 without a back plate behind the arm rest.
I do not have the measurements for the Short-Shaft.
Looks like I will need to hit the Junk yards this spring.

Does anyone know of a source for the long shaft door repeater?

Regards Miles

oldspackrat

Miles,
I might have one. There are at least 3 sizes of these & as you can imagine, the driver side is always the one that breaks as it's used the most. The F85 & Cutlass S did not have the chrome plate behind the armrest, only the Supreme I believe. I'll try to check on one today.

Miles71

Hi Oldspackrat, thanks for looking and for updating me on the armrests.
I have had 9-Cutlasses. Only 1 was a 4-door, long time ago. All of the rest for Cutlass Supremes 70-72.

oldspackrat

I checked today and I do not have any that are the same size as yours sorry.

nicks1966

I looked up the gm prt numbers
8789690 is the right side
8789691 is the left side
use parts voice to search the numbers
https://www.partsvoice.com/partsearch

Chicago auto parts shows they have stock on the 8789691
http://chicagoautoparts.us/search

there is a 8789960 on ebay for 45.00

Miles71

Still looking for the "Door latch remote LH".
It seems that many auto websites do carry a GM and Oldsmobile parts, but since they do not list the shaft length, it is hard to find the correct part.

I sent a few emails to auto parts stores with a detailed description of the part, including the shaft length.

Here is a part number from Goodmark. Part#: GMK4020443681L, $14.95.
I think this is a Short Shaft-Part.




Drivers Side Door latch Remote, The Red marks indicate where I took the measurements (+/- 2mm error).