Thanks for the helpful info. A small spring sounds like a good idea.


Bill

"tomb" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>