What are the symptoms?
Right now, my rear door actuator will make the lock mechanism move up and down, but it doesn't stay up, so you can't open the door. In order to open it, you have to hold the lock button up and use the inside handle or, from the outside, use the key to hold the lock button up and then the outside handle will work.
The basic issue is that there is not any resistance to hold the button up, it just flops back down again. The linkages seem ok, there isn't major slop, etc.
The acutuator just flops around also. I was expecting it to provide some resistance, but it doesn't.
there is one arm coming off the central point (at about a 45 degree angle) with a hole on the end, but nothing is in it.
If seems like if there were a spring, the door would either stay locked or un-locked, because the actuator doesn't provide any resistance.
Is this spring being referred to here, the problem?
John S.
('97 disco 1)