Anyone with any common sense that wants shaved door handles should run as far away from this diy as possible.
Shaved door handles good or bad.
Or it will eventually crack and fall out especially as much as u put on there and the fact that the doors are always opening and closing.
Fortunately several of the early customs from the mid and later part of the 1940 s with shaved door handles have survived.
If i have the door open it pulls fine and the interior door handle swings all of the way open as it should.
Shaved door handle kit 2 door 12 channel solenoids relays door poppers wiring harness two remotes kit not yet reviewed part number.
Shaving your door handles is one of the cleanest most stylish mod s one can do.
A shaved door has a steel cable for the latch release inside the door and a solenoid.
On the 49 i didn t want any electric gizmos for fear of them going bad and locking me out.
When these cars were restored in recent years we had a chance to take a good look how the custom car builders from the 1940 s handled the shaved door handles and push button doors.
I am having a problem with my actuators not fully opening the door handle.
But how do you get the door open reliably without a door handle outside you ask.
Had to cut it in one place and make a bend.
Shaved the door handle and used the rod off the door handle to run it to the door lock.
A standard 35 pound solenoid will unlock and open a car door wide enough to grab the door with a hand which is why door handles are obsolete for this method of remote car entry.
The solenoid does the real work of unlocking and opening car doors.
A clean line to complete your new paint job is just what the car show ordered.
This is a simple and some what clean way to shave doors in the link.