Thanks Timo! Stripping out the carpet and seeing the black pan with everything really made up my mind for me.

I have a wee tiny update. I did a little work on the passenger door panel today. I cut in the surround for the door latch handle and attached a piece off of the GA panel that helps support the front of the armrest, this piece was cut off the GA panel and trimmed down to the size that I wanted. Once that was done I mounted the door panel:

You can see how the opening through the surround (where the insert goes) exposes a porting of the inner door structure. The horizontal silver rod that you can see in the opening is the rod for the door lock. Using a piece of soapstone I traced the outline of the opening onto the inner panel. I also put the insert in place and traced the small hole for the latch handle. Here's the outline once the panel was removed:

The small "square" outline inside the larger outline is the hole for the handle. Using this small hole as a guide I traced out where the handle and its bracket would sit. You will have to cut a hole into the inner door steel panel for the handle arm that attaches to the latch rod. This is how it looks attached:

The latch rod will now be cut to the new length needed and the end bent at a 90 deg. angle to fit into the socket on the back of the latch handle.
And how it looks with the panel and insert in place:

And believe it or not it actually works! How did that happen!
I still have to shorten the lock rod yet though.

That's it, I'm off to bed.

Nolan

[This message has been edited by Sourmug (edited 05-29-2007).]

Nope, nothing new at this point. We are actually on holidays out at the cabin on the lake working hard. You know, sitting on the deck, going for walks, swimming, boating...

Nolan

[This message has been edited by Sourmug (edited 09-06-2006).]