ok so from the title you can tell my doors dont lock and if i lock them from in inside i can only get in through my hatch. its for my drivers and passengers doors dont lock anyway my question is what can i do to fix it or what part do i need to replace it?

 

The locks..........maybe?

 

^ lol ^ Did the lock cylinder break? Does it (key) even rotate when you go to lock it?

 

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...t=door+handles

there ya go.... new door handles for 50 bucks!

 

I'm not sure what your asking exactly, but in order to lock your doors from the inside when you get out, you need to hold the door handle out as if you where opening them. But, you should be able to lock the doors, from the outside, when the door is closed. If not, something is broken or a linkage came off.

 

Isn't that for FD's or for all sevens? If it is then my ***** busted, cuz it locks EVERY time....

 

thats how it is for my Fc, a 86 base. I should have taken some pictures( to late now), but when I got the car, both handles where broken off. When you put new handles in, you need to adjust a linkage from the handle to the piece that latches the door in place. If I remember correctly, if the linkage is adjusted to far one way or the other the locking mechanism of the handle binds, and it won't lock. Maybe thats why?

 

i have some what sameproblem it goes a little bit like this.....get out of car lock it and shut door check to see if locked and it pops open.....this is on both doors

 

That is the way it is supposed to work.

Unless you hold the exterior handle up, while closing the door, they unlock to prevent you from accidentally locking your keys in the car.

 

thats the thing i dont hold the exterior handle up while closing. i lock the doors and shut them check to see if they locked and it opens the only way they stayed locked is when its lock from inside when door is closed

 

Yes, that is correct. What didn't you understand?

If you lock the door from the inside or with the key while the door is open, then when you close the door it should automatically unlock unless you are holding the external handle up when closing.

Again to prevent you from accidentally locking your keys in the car.

It is supposed to unlock if you don't hold the exterior handle up when closing the door.

 

i cant lock my doors from the outside is what ive been meaning to say and if i look them from the inside i cant unlock them from the outside so like if i was to drive somewhere, lock my doors from the inside, close my doors and go do whatever, when i come back i cant unlock the doors

 

Then the rod from the key cyl is disconnected on your case.

 

ohh ok so if i replaced the door handles then i would need to reconnect the rod correct?

 

oh!!!!!!!! ok thanks

 

So what if you dont have to hold the handle open?

edit: lemme guess, some linkage is busted?

 

yep

 

wow
this thread is hard to read

 

Huh? I never knew that! I thought that my door handles were busted because of this. I was also thinking about replacing the locks since I thought they were broken but decided it wasn't such a big deal anyway? Go figure. You learn something new everyday! Ha

 

hahahaha. i love when people dont know how to lock they're doors.. its not only 7's that do this either....

 

Similar thing happened to me. But in my case no matter how I locked it, there was no way to unlock it. It wasn't the rod in my case, it was the door lock mechanism that the rods connect to. So if your rods are still attached you need to replace that thing. Cheapest way is junk yard.

Either way, taking apart the door is easy. The one hard part is the manual crank if you have one. For that you need to squeeze the horshoe clip through the thin gap between the handle and the door. Don't force the crank off or you'll break it.