[Shotimes] removing door panels

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:18:59 -0400

Ok, everyone in unison now:  screws under the caps on the pull strap!
I definitely didn't have those out.  Time to try again.  Thanks man!

Mike Wojton
Toledo, Ohio

-'95 Green MTX  3/01-1/03
   ShoShop y-pipe

-'95 White MTX
   '96 Brake Upgrade

Putting the F U back in fun.

Ron Childs <rbchilds@pacbell.net> wrote on 09/10/2003 03:13:15 PM:

> Assuming the screws under the caps on the pull strap are out, you just 
lift it up, don't pull 
> out.. It helps to have the lock button pushed down. At least this is how 
my '91 works. Oh, yeah; 
> the little triangle piece at the front should be removed too.
> 
> -Ron Childs
> 
> 
> Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com wrote:
> I got those out ok. It's at the top, where the panel hooks over the sill
> of the door, that I couldn't get it free. I've done it before, but can't
> remember how it worked. I was pulling on it pretty hard, and figured
> I'd better stop before I hear a crack.
> 
> 
> Mike Wojton
> Toledo, Ohio
> 
> -'95 Green MTX 3/01-1/03
> ShoShop y-pipe
> 
> -'95 White MTX
> '96 Brake Upgrade
> 
> Putting the F U back in fun.
> 
> 
> 
> "mkelley1@gt.rr.com" wrote on 09/10/2003 02:40:34 PM:
> 
> > Mike,
> > 
> > The door panels are held on by plastic "push pins" (for lack of a 
better
> > description). They slide into slots in the door panel and then push 
> into
> > holes in the door where little ridges on the pin hold it in (think 
fish
> > hook and you'll get the idea). From my experience, they're very hard 
to
> > get out! if the panel has never been removed. Once they are removed, 
the
> > ridges get bent and don't hold as well. I took one of my pins down to 
> an
> > auto parts store and bought new ones so the panel would hold tight. If 

> I
> > remember correctly, the replacement pins were relatively cheap.
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > Original Message:
> > -----------------
> > From: Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com
> > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:55:04 -0400
> > To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> > Subject: [Shotimes] removing door panels
> > 
> > 
> > Any tips for removing door panels? I need to remove my front
> > drivers to track down a mysterious squeak. I tried to get it off
> > this past weekend, but had to stop when I couldn't get the top
> > part right at the window bottom off. I can't remember how it
> > hooks on there. Some kind of metal clip that pops in some slotted
> > holes? I didn't want to break anything.
> > 
> >! 
> > Mike Wojton
> > Toledo, Ohio
> > 
> > -'95 Green MTX 3/01-1/03
> > ShoShop y-pipe
> > 
> > -'95 White MTX
> > '96 Brake Upgrade
> > 
> > Putting the F U back in fun
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