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Re: Glovebox question

To: levilevi@home.com
Subject: Re: Glovebox question
From: scott suhring <suhring@lancnews.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 06:52:59 -0400
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
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Since we'll all end up telling how we deal with the 
dreaded glovebox, I'll add my extremly scientific
method: I use a credit card. Slide in the 
upper left hand corner, push button while
pulling with a downward flip on the credit card
and it will pop.

Scott Suhring
Elizabethtown, PA
'70 TR6
'59 TR3A


levilevi@home.com wrote:
> 
> Tim
> 
> No secret to it.  Some will open some won't.  I have one that won't
> either.  Bought one of those little finger pull gadgets but once I
> pulled the buton/latch out I saw that I'd have to ream the hole to get
> both to fit back in the hole.  Didn't like the idea of doing that so
> when I put the latch back I got a small length of small diameter black
> shoe string (you know the small slick kind that always come untied) and
> put it under the bottom of the latch with a small loop sticking out and
> the two ends between the latch and the door.  Now I just pinch the loop
> with my thumb and forefinger, push the button in and pull the glovebox
> door open.  Works great and looks better than the finger pull IMHO.
> 
> Bud Rolofson
> 
> Tim Hickey wrote:
> >
> > How in the world does one open the glovebox on a 1973 TR6?

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