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Re: Need help on GT hatch stays

To: "Carl Elliott" <grunt2@adelphia.net>, "mga" <mga@napanet.net>,
Subject: Re: Need help on GT hatch stays
From: "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 17:10:47 -0800
'Tis amazing what those DPOs can get up to!

Lawrie

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>
To: Lawrie Alexander <Lawrie@britcars.com>; mga <mga@napanet.net>;
mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, January 23, 2000 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: Need help on GT hatch stays


>Mine may have been  jury rigged, they have a chrome carriage bolt through
>the center holding everything together. Carl
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Lawrie Alexander <Lawrie@britcars.com>
>To: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>; mga <mga@napanet.net>;
><mgs@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 6:33 PM
>Subject: Re: Need help on GT hatch stays
>
>
>> I'm afraid that's not really an accurate description, Carl.
>>
>> At least on all the GTs I've worked on, the chrome domed piece in the
>middle
>> of the chrome spring cover is like a domed speed nut. It has a set of
>grippy
>> teeth on the inside that just press down over a stud around which the
>spring
>> is wrapped, (and from which one does not want to try and remove the
spring
>> because it is very strong!)
>> The smaller one at the edge of the spring cover is the same type of
thing.
>>
>> Both these can be removed by prying under their edges. The new ones
>> (available from Moss under numbers 472-375 and 472-385) are fitted by
>gently
>> bearing down on them and pressing them in place. From past experience, I
>can
>> tell you that trying to hammer them on will dent them................
>>
>> Lawrie
>> British Sportscar Center
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>
>> To: mga <mga@napanet.net>; mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
>> Date: Sunday, January 23, 2000 1:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: Need help on GT hatch stays
>>
>>
>> >Thay have a bolt passing through the center. Dont take the springs apart
>or
>> >remove the arms from them.
>> >Just the center bolt remove and reinstall. Carl E.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >---- Original Message -----
>> >From: mga <mga@napanet.net>
>> >To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
>> >Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 3:11 PM
>> >Subject: Need help on GT hatch stays
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hello fellow GTer's:
>> >>
>> >> I am trying to install new chrome plastic hatch stay spring covers.  I
>> >> cannot tell how the spring assembly comes apart so that I can install
>the
>> >> cover.  Has anyone done this?
>> >>
>> >> Also, are the two bright metal bolt covers available?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for any help you can give me!
>> >>
>> >> Don Scott
>> >
>


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