Bill wrote:
| On my 1993 Accord the fuel door will no longer open using the lever
| in the car. When I pull the lever the lock does retreat enough to
| allow the door to open. What is lacking is the spring that the door
| had to pop free of the lock so it can be opened by hand.

I've seen a Camry that had *exactly* the same problem. Caused me to look at
that mechanism a bit more closely; it appears to be the same on the Camry,
Corolla and Civic, so presumably it's the same on your Accord as well.

The spring that's missing is a narrow, flat piece of metal that was probably
mounted on a plastic holder on the fuel door, on the side where the hinge
is, centered from top down.

| I can`t
| find any diagram of the door mechanism to see if something is
| missing. I don`t see any place that a spring or something similar is
| missing that would give the door its ablity to pop open. Any ideas
| would help.

What we did with the Camry was to get a few regular springs of the right
size and just attach them to the various parts of metal on the door, so the
door would be spring-loaded to open up. That works pretty well