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Do-it-yourself repair of a vaz 2107 door repair
In detail: do-it-yourself repair of a vaz 2107 door repair from a real master for the site my.housecope.com.
If the car door is difficult to open and close, and the door hinges are adjusted correctly, it is necessary to adjust or replace the door lock. This does not require any specialized tools and devices. You can replace or repair the VAZ 2107 door lock yourself.
If the door lock does not work well, it is not necessary to change it. It is likely that lubrication and adjustment can be dispensed with.
If the door lock mechanism is working properly, the lock striker needs to be adjusted. If the door sags down when closing, the latch must be raised; if it rises, it must be lowered. If the door rests too much on the seal and closes "one click", the latch must be pushed out, if the door is loose, the latch must be moved deeper towards the passenger compartment. The procedure is as follows:
Mark the initial position of the latch with a marker.
Loosen the three mounting bolts.
Move the latch to a position where the door can be easily and securely closed.
Tighten the mounting bolts.
Check the operation of the door lock. If necessary, correct the adjustment.
To repair the door locks, you must first remove the trim.
If the door does not open well with the inner handle, it is necessary to adjust its position, which affects the tension of the rod. To adjust, loosen the two fastening screws and move the handle together with the bracket to a position in which the lock works correctly. After completing the adjustment, carefully tighten the bolts.
Another reason for problems with the VAZ 2107 door locks is plastic external handles installed instead of metal ones. The material of such handles deforms over time and loses its rigidity. To eliminate the malfunction, it is necessary to replace the handles with metal ones.
Video (click to play).
Repair of the rear door lock of the VAZ 2107 does not differ from the front one. The only difference is the presence of “larvae” in the front locks and rods attached to them, which sometimes causes additional problems when the lock is closed with a key.
Use a slotted screwdriver to disconnect the pull of the lock activation button.
Unscrew the screws securing the groove and pull it out.
Loosen the screws securing the inner door handle and push it into the door.
Unscrew the three screws securing the lock mechanism and remove it together with the inner handle and rod.
[tip] Sometimes, to restore the functionality of the lock, it is enough to clean and lubricate its parts. Otherwise, it is necessary to replace it with a new one. Installation of the door lock is carried out in the reverse order. Before putting the lock, its parts must be lubricated with grease. [/ Tip]
Note! To carry out the adjustment, you will need from the tools: Impact-rotary screwdriver, as well as washers of different thicknesses, it is possible that you will still use a metal plate for the place of the washers (The plate or washers, in principle, there is no difference, just the plate will fit completely and the washers partially, but all the same, adjustment with the plate and with the washers will succeed), besides, if you suddenly decide to replace the hinges themselves and after replacing them, by the way, by the way, you will forget about the backlash for a while (Over time, the door will still sag, but as a rule after a very long time this happens if, of course, you will not leave the doors open for a long time, because it is because of the doors open for a long time that the hinges sag), then you will need a grinder, a drill, a mill, a hammer, a chisel and some other tools, but the most basic are those that we have listed, without them it will not work (By the way, if you can knock out the pin holding the loop with a chisel, then the grinder will not be useful to you at all I am)!
Summary:
When do you need to adjust the doors? As soon as you saw that they began to sag, we recommend that you do not wait until the door is completely jammed, but immediately proceed to the procedure for adjusting the doors, it is carried out in two ways, both of which you have to do, the first is to adjust the hinges and eliminate backlash from them (The backlash can not be eliminated, but simply raise the loop by placing something under it, thereby the door will become higher), the second is the adjustment of the locks (For more information on how to adjust the locks, read the article: "Adjusting door locks on cars"), but only until you adjust the hinges, we do not recommend tackling the adjustment of the locks at all, for clarity, in the photo below, the place where the door rubbed with the upper edge against the rack is circled, and the paint was damaged, all this happened just because of the sagging door , which, when closing, rested on the rack and thereby scratched it, so that this does not happen with you, always watch the gap, moreover, due to curves and incorrectly set gaps, the side part of the car loses its appearance very much and the car begins to look worse.
Note! If you suddenly cannot unscrew the bolts that are attached to the hinges with a shock with a rotary screwdriver, then in this case, resort to drilling them, for this you take a 6 mm drill and a good drill and those bolts that are unrealistic to unscrew, drill their heads at the beginning to a depth of about 6 mm carefully, then with a drill 8 mm, to a depth of 4.5 mm approximately and when the heads are cut off, remove the door, and unscrew the studs with pliers and, if necessary, also spray them with WD-40!
1. There are several ways to consider them all, the first is to unscrew the bolts that attach the door hinges to the body (They are indicated by a red arrow, not all the bolts are visible in the photo, in fact there are much more of them and there is still a lower hinge), after them turning out, you will need to put thick washers under them, like the ones shown in the small photo, thereby choosing the thickness and number of washers, you can align the door as you need, if you do not want to unscrew the bolts constantly and you want to finish the work as soon as possible, then cut all the washers in such a way that they crawl under the loosened bolts and then you could clamp them with the same bolts, thanks to this, you will not have to constantly unscrew the bolts, but only slightly loosen them, insert the cut washer and wrap it up again and so on until the door is aligned.
2. The next method consists in lining a thick metal plate under the hinge, in general, the plate is taken, again, the thickness is selected individually, if the door hangs too low, then the plate will need to be thick, if it sags a little, then a thin one is enough, well, well, from what to make such a plate, you ask, we answer: From any metal that most likely lies in your garage and has a small thickness so that it can be cut, if not, then the plate can be made from a metal can, for example, or something else whether (Everything is up to your imagination), in addition, the plate needs to be cut out in the center, as you can see in the photo below, precisely in order for the bolts to wrap in and so that this plate cannot be seen, make it in size, slightly smaller than the loop, but only cut it in length purely in size so that the loop fits from the very top to the very bottom.
Note! To put such a plate under the hinge, you need to do the same, loosen the bolts of this hinge a little and then put a plate under it, we recommend starting from the lower hinge, since if you put it under the upper one, then there is a possibility that the door is vice versa down to fall over, and not to straighten up as it should be!
3.And the last method, we will immediately warn you that it is difficult (for anyone how, but we resort to it only when the hinges have already worn out badly and they have a terrible backlash), but still doable and still more reliable, it is done as follows , the door is completely removed from the car, after which the middle part under which the pin itself is installed is drilled out or cut down by a grinder (The middle part is indicated by a red arrow, in no case, do not look at those parts that are shown with a blue arrow and by the way we indicated the pin with a green arrow so that you understood what it is) and at the end the pin is removed and the hinge is removed from the car door and a new one is put in its place (A slightly different way to replace the hinges, but only there is no need to drill and cut anything, explained in the video clip at the very end of the article , if you are interested then check it out).
Additional video clip: As you have already seen, there are a lot of ways to restore the level of the overhang of the door, but these are not all methods, in more detail with all of them and clearly with those that were given in this article, you can familiarize yourself with the videos that are posted below: