[kpbrown31]

No luck with Ames, OPGI, or Restoration Specialties. According to the tech guy at Ames, he checked a GM parts book and it appears to be a GM part number of 4301722 (RH) or 4301723 (LH). It’s a type door latch spring that came off the inside door latch mechanism on my 66 Catalina wagon. He also said it appears they used the same spring on 62-67 Chevelle wagons and El Caminos.

Restoration specialties has a similar looking spring that I am considering ordering and just seeing if I could bend it how it needed to be, but I also wondered if those springs would actually bend or just try and break. Or curious if anyone might know where to find them before I start trying to hunt down cars in a salvage yard.

As you can see in my pictures one leg is broke off. From what I can tell it applies pressure in the lock to keep the detent lever pushed down to latch?

Thanks!

[mgarblik]

McMaster-Carr sells a variety of little springs of that variety. They are a industrial supply warehouse. You would need to measure an old spring for wire diameter, number of coils and leg design. But there is a good possibility they would have a spring that would function for you. They have a great on-line catalog but this is not car parts so you have to have your measurements.

[misterp266]

Is this close?

https://www.classicindustries.com/pr...s/9720761.html

Fits ‘67 - ‘72 El Caminos.
I look at Chevy sites for things to fit my ‘63 Safari. A lot of stuff interchanges but they won’t list it for a Pontiac. Ecklers has a lot of stuff too.

You may be better off looking for a complete latch assembly.

[kpbrown31]

Originally Posted by misterp266

Is this close?

https://www.classicindustries.com/pr...s/9720761.html

Fits ‘67 - ‘72 El Caminos.
I look at Chevy sites for things to fit my ‘63 Safari. A lot of stuff interchanges but they won’t list it for a Pontiac. Ecklers has a lot of stuff too.

You may be better off looking for a complete latch assembly.

Yeah I may just need to try something that’s close and see if I can make it work. Never thought about checking Ecklers or other sites. I definitely think searching for the Chevy compatible part will be my better option.

[mgarblik]

Torsion springs from McMaster-Carr

https://www.mcmaster.com/products/torsion-springs/