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Neil W
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Boot lid springs
« on: Sep 22nd, 2004, 7:38pm » |
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I think I saw another member's description of how to adjust the tension of the boot springs, but can't find it now  . I got my young nephew, who is built like a brick outdoor convenience and has muscles to die for  , to try pulling the spring back a notch, so as to stop the boot lid trying to crush my skull in the most modest of winds, but he couldn't.
The problem is you can't get a straight pull back on the little loop on the rear end of the springs.
Has anyone managed to do this adjustment, and if so how was it done? 
Neil W.
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Wayne24v
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Re: Boot lid springs
« Reply #1 on: Sep 26th, 2004, 1:24pm » |
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It's been bugging me for ages too. I have the opposite problem, it hardly goes up at all some days. (Oo er Missus!)
I think it might just be possible if the Terminator pulls the spring, Robocop pulls the clip out, and finally Commander Data re-locates the clip in the new location.
Cheers,
Wayne (I never want to manually open my boot ever again). 
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Neil W
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Re: Boot lid springs
« Reply #2 on: Oct 9th, 2004, 6:09pm » |
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Wayne,
Thanks for the encouragement  . I finally got the aforementioned boc to pull back the springs far enough for me to latch them into the next to last hole in the adjuster bars.
A piece of 6mm rope 1.0 metre long tied in a loop through the wire eye on the spring was pulled backward by the boc  whilst I sat in the boot with a mole wrench fastened to the spring close behind the loop, so I could guide the hook end of the spring out of one hole and through one further back .
The boc said the job was a piece of cake but I daresay he could lift the whole car for me to change a wheel .
Neil W.
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Paul B
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Re: Boot lid springs
« Reply #3 on: Oct 9th, 2004, 6:24pm » |
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Hmm... must be a regional thing, but the B.O.C would be called a B.S.H where I come from
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Neil W
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Re: Boot lid springs
« Reply #4 on: Oct 9th, 2004, 6:33pm » |
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We Northerners try to be polite sometimes - especially when others are watching  !
Neil W.
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Wayne24v
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Re: Boot lid springs
« Reply #5 on: Oct 10th, 2004, 3:11pm » |
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Neil.
I take it the boot opens ok now?
Maybe your Nephew should go into business?
Cheers,
Wayne
P.S Big up to the Northern Massif
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Neil W
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Re: Boot lid springs
« Reply #6 on: Oct 10th, 2004, 5:48pm » |
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Yes it does and so far hasn't fallen on my head. My dear beloved boc would, if asked nicely, do the same for others I'm sure. But it might cost a packet of fags like it did for me !
Neil W.
If there is a * in fags then I didn't put it there .
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Wayne24v
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Re: Boot lid springs
« Reply #7 on: Oct 10th, 2004, 6:32pm » |
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on Oct 10th, 2004, 5:48pm, Neil W wrote:Yes it does and so far hasn't fallen on my head. My dear beloved boc would, if asked nicely, do the same for others I'm sure. But it might cost a packet of fags like it did for me !
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OK mate, tell him the packet of figs are on their way!
Cheers,
Wayne
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