Body fitment and misc hardware

[Justin Fleming]

can anyone tell me if the door latch strike pins are supposed to have the little nylon plastic piece on them from the factory. Having touble getting the door the close easily.

Also where can you get the little body push in clip thing a bobs that help hold the emblem on the passenger rear fender, also the little rubber gasket is pretty wore our

the last little piece I am looking for is the little plastic insert that you screw the adjustment screw in for the front lower light bulb to make the alignment adjustment. My plastic piece is broken and the light is all tilted in the bezel...

thanks in advance

 

[diesel4me]

When I worked at an auto parts/body supply store,we sold a brand of body moulding clips and other fasteners ,the brand name was "W&E"...they had a suitcase type of display to show customers the variety of different clips,bolts,and other things they made...

The push in clips your looking for ,we used to refer to them as "barrel clips"--they were cone shaped with barbs on the outer edge and had a flange around the top to seat against the body panel--all you had to do was shove them in the hole in the body panel,and push the pins on the emblem into them to secure them,body shops always used them instead of the original pal nuts on the front fenders on GM trucks ,because those often snapped the pins off,or they just hated cutting their hands up trying to get in there to tighten them--it was either that,or use 3M double sided tape to secure them..

The same brand also had the headlamp adjusting screws and plastic clips...

I dont know if you can buy those nylon things for the door latch bolts ,if anyone has them it would be the Dorman or "HELP" products line probably--they sell the headlamp screw adjusters too..you dont have to have the nylon door striker things really,,but the doors will close easier and dont rattle with them on ..

 

[warrior454]

not sure if you have a company called FMSI there in the states but they have those striker bushings part # 6344hp is a bag of 10 i sell them out of my store at 7.54 a bag.

 

[Justin Fleming]

Is there any trick to removing the body emblems with out breaking them....


Thanks for the heads up on the striker pieces

 

[-stew-]

1/2 inch DOT air brake air line and 1/2 inch PEX water pipe also work on the strikers.

 

[The Griff]

Just wrap the strikers with electrical tape, I'd say it works better than the factory plastic pieces. My passenger door on the Blazer has it's factory plastic piece, and it shuts pretty easy, but on the drivers side I wrapped the striker with electrical tape it can close all the way just by breathing on it.

 

[dyeager535]

Not saying factory is any better, but wasn't that long ago that I got my hands on a bag of 10 of the GM pieces. They were certainly a lot cheaper than buying them individually.

I suspect that door alignment has a lot to do with how long those things last.