How do I tell what year my door is??
I think you're going to have a hard time narrowing the date of the door down much narrower than '70-'72. For a Duster the door glass was the same '70-72, the door handle locations were the same, the lock location was the same, the interior panels interchange from those years.
Quite honestly, the latch itself might be the biggest tell. Of course there's no guarantee that latch is original either.
As far as fixing it, I would just buy the same latch as the one that was already in there. It worked before, and if you change over to the later style you may need the rest of the internal hardware to go with it. This sort of thing is why you compare the new part to the old part before you try to install it.
Before you do that though, have you tried adjusting the latch?
Door sticks
I think you're going to have a hard time narrowing the date of the door down much narrower than '70-'72. For a Duster the door glass was the same '70-72, the door handle locations were the same, the lock location was the same, the interior panels interchange from those years.
Quite honestly, the latch itself might be the biggest tell. Of course there's no guarantee that latch is original either.
As far as fixing it, I would just buy the same latch as the one that was already in there. It worked before, and if you change over to the later style you may need the rest of the internal hardware to go with it. This sort of thing is why you compare the new part to the old part before you try to install it.
Before you do that though, have you tried adjusting the latch?
Door sticks
