'07 Peterbilt Door Handles

Plastic what are you spraying them with? Sounds like you may need to replace the drivers, why don't you swap it with the passengers side? If no one uses the passengers door, If you are solo then you can get a few more miles out of them before you have to replace them.

 

So basically their acting like the pre 05 handles?

 

I was thinking of WD40 too. Might try pressure washing the locking mechanism then soaking with WD. Keep in mind that WD evaporates. It might be best to use Lithium grease.

 

I had the same issue with mine and WD40 took care of it.

Might want to try something like PB Blaster. It "walks" into crevises.

 

PB blaster is the ####. Brake parts cleaner I know weird could also help you.

 

Someone told me about the pb walking so I took a bolt and clamped it in my vise. Sprayed pb on the bottom of the bolts threads and let it sit overnight. When I checked it in the morning it had crawled up the bolt.

I thought that was kind of neat.

 

Shouldn't need any sort of special tooling to change them. They are not too hard to do. Door handles are not interchangeable side for side. Sometimes lube will free them up if caught early enough. If you do change them, either order them keyed to your current key or swap the key part. If you know what your doing, it is possible to grind the new lock to work with the old key.

 

Just fixed mine today. Drivers door was hard to open. Had to pull the latch and push on the door to get it to open. Was ok from the inside. I lubed it up good with Zep lubricant and it works fine now. I guess i will see how long that lasts.