Clear plastic door lock ferrules?

[PWB]

Does anyone have experience replacing these clear plastic door lock ferrules? ('63-'67)

Do they snap in? Is there an inner retainer? Mine are a little yellowed.

Thanks!

 

 

[RivNut]

My 63, 64, and 65 have chrome plated metal ones (could be stainless.)

[PWB]

11 minutes ago, RivNut said:

My 63, 64, and 65 have chrome plated metal ones (could be stainless.)

Ahhhh, they push them to fit your years. Bad advert' data - thanks for the correction RivNut.

But the images do match '67.

Hmmm. I just don't remember what lies beneath the panels.

 

 

[Seafoam65]

                   My totally unmolested 65 Riviera has the clear plastic ferrules around the lock knobs. The door panels 

have never been off of this car.

[EmTee]

If my memory is correct, I believe there are tangs on the back side of the ferrules that are bent over to hold them in place on the door panel.  So, the panels need to be removed to gain access.

[Seafoam65]

           The metal ones have tangs, but I would wager that the clear plastic ones just snap in the hole.

[RivNut]

I guess it depends on what you have to start with.  If Winston's car is original and the ferrules have never been off, then they're probably push-ins as shown earlier.  If they're the metal kind with the tangs on them, then you would have to take the door panels off to attach them.  Who among us was working that part of the assembly line in 1965 and can say for sure what was what in 1965?

 

Here's a picture of a clear one with tabs.

 

[Seafoam65]

                  Ed, in looking at my door panels carefully, I appear to have the plastic ones with the metal below with the

two tabs like in the above picture you posted. I can make out the metal part below the plastic on top....they are not

all plastic like the ones at the beginning of this post. 

[PWB]

1 hour ago, Seafoam65 said:

                  Ed, in looking at my door panels carefully, I appear to have the plastic ones with the metal below with the

two tabs like in the above picture you posted. I can make out the metal part below the plastic on top....they are not

all plastic like the ones at the beginning of this post. 

I believe I've evidenced enough info to where now I believe the all-plastics were only '67. And they were on many GM models that year.

They work well -  yellow with age.

1967, quite a transitional one 

 

 

 

Edited December 5, 2016 by PWB (see edit history)