Tom,
The door posties can be easily installed even by a person with fat hands as
long as they are using factory parts.
The first thing to do is to remove the postie head from the threaded shank
by holding the last couple of threads with pliers and turning the head with
an appropriate sized wrench. Then take the threaded shank with the nut,
lockwasher and flat washer on it and put the end through the hole in the
door from the inside. Next assemble the plastic washer and the head from
the outside. Tighten the head and the nut and you're finished.
This method was arrived at after an hour of frustrated attempts to assemble
the nut and washers to the shank from the inside of the door.
Stan
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At 08:30 PM 4/29/01 -0700, Tom Duffy wrote:
>Well, last weekend I replaced all but 2 of the twisty & postys on
>my 68 1600, so this weekend I started on the last two, on the
>doors.
>Suffice it to say, they weren't designed for ease of access.
>I ended up taking out the quarter window/vertical window
>guide assembly and the door glass as well.
>Getting the old posty off was easy, just a case of getting the
>right size spanner into the works. The washers and nut dropped
>inside the door, but it's possible to fish around for those.
>
>The problem is getting the washers and nuts onto the new
>posty. I have small hands, but I just couldn't find manouvering
>room for two fingers to get anything on the thread.
>After many painful attempts, I used some gloop (grease would have
>been good, I actually used chrome cleaning paste) to "stick" the
>washers to my thumb. That way I could position the part onto the
>thread, and turn from the outside to "catch" it on.
>
>If there's a better way, I still have the other door to do...
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