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Originally Posted by woodiewagon46
41, it's not that hard to do. I replaced the spring in one of my latches about 10 years ago. The hardest thing for me was finding the correct spring. Several suppliers such as Drake and Carpenter have door latch springs, but the Station Wagon spring is different. I was lucky enough to find an old time auto supply and the counterman had a box of almost every spring and '41 to '48 Ford station wagon was in the box. I might have an extra, let me dig around and see where I might have put them.
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46, that would be fantastic, the spring that is broken is the one that controls the locking lever. From what I can tell online the 41 latch looks different than 42-48 but the springs may be the same.
I'm attaching a photo of the latch in question, the broken spring is at about the 5:00 o'clock position. On the edge you can see the tip end of the spring that has unwound. From looking it appears that I would have to remove the rivets to access the spring