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As it turns out my door latches had the Chinese Virus (i.e. my latches were reproduction and made in China). The spring on the latch was way too stiff. I pulled the latches and replaced them with 1969 service parts that I bought on Ebay. The difference between real and the reproduction was astounding. I did not weigh the two latches but the service part was noticeably heavier. Now the door latches work as they should and I no longer have to slam the door to make it latch. BTW. I bought the part from Stilwell Obsolete Ford Parts on Ebay and they shipped it two day for no extra charge and they were a good seller. The crazy thing is that they were still in the unopened service part boxes that were in excellent condition. The latches were coated with some sort of storage grease so the hardest part of the whole deal was removing the old storage grease before I installed them.
Bob I am not certain if my exterior door handles were OEM or reproduction but they seem to work ok so I left them alone at the moment. With that said, I was surprised at how well the reproduction latches copied the cosmetics but failed on their ability to operate correctly. Once you had the real deal in one hand and the reproduction in the other the differences were obvious.