I removed the door pin on the passenger side of my D because the door was not aligned properly from the day it was built. Sure enough the nut dropped into the hole in the fiberglass side. I had to remove the inside cover over the speaker. and cut a 3 inch hole into the fiberglass to get my hand in to find the nut and hold it in place for the door peg. Afterwards. I drill an 8/32 hole and threaded it so I could put a long small screw in the plate to hold it if I ever needed to remove the peg again. As it turned out the housing for the door peg was set 1/4 off when molding the fiberglass at the factory. I had to cut the adjustment plate to give more movement in order for the door to lock properly. Initially it would only single latch and not double latch. This took many hours to correctly diagnosis and realign. Bob