Front passenger inside door handle not working 97 XLS

[ecarlson]

As of a couple weeks ago, the front passenger inside door handle in my 97 Avalon XLS is no longer able to open the door. The front passenger door now only opens from the outside. The locks still work fine.

Pulling on the front passenger inside door handle still feels normal, but nothing happens when you pull the handle.

It's like a child lock has been engaged, but I don't think the front passenger door has a child lock feature.

Any suggestions on how to fix this? Any known problems of this sort?

[ecarlson]

Never mind, I fixed it.

I took off the door panel, and saw that there was a broken clip behind the inside door lever. The clip holds a metal rod in a hole in the lever, so the metal rod came loose. I slightly re-bent the metal rod downward, so it wouldn't need the clip, and put it back in the hole in the door lever, and it works fine.