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(Message started by: Neil W on Sep 22^nd, 2004, 7:38pm)

Title: Boot lid springs
Post by Neil W on Sep 22^nd, 2004, 7:38pm

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 :P, 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.

Title: Re: Boot lid springs
Post by Wayne24v on Sep 26^th, 2004, 1:24pm

It's been bugging me for ages too. I have the opposite problem, it hardly goes up at all some days. (Oo er Missus!) :P

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). 8)

Title: Re: Boot lid springs
Post by Neil W on Oct 9^th, 2004, 6:09pm

Wayne,

Thanks for the encouragement ;D. 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 :P.

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 ;D.

Neil W.

Title: Re: Boot lid springs
Post by Paul B on Oct 9^th, 2004, 6:24pm

Hmm... must be a regional thing, but the B.O.C would be called a B.S.H where I come from ;D

Title: Re: Boot lid springs
Post by Neil W on Oct 9^th, 2004, 6:33pm

We Northerners try to be polite sometimes - especially when others are watching :-*!

Neil W.

Title: Re: Boot lid springs
Post by Wayne24v on Oct 10^th, 2004, 3:11pm

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 ;)

Title: Re: Boot lid springs
Post by Neil W on Oct 10^th, 2004, 5:48pm

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 ;D!

Neil W.

If there is a * in fags then I didn't put it there :-/.

Title: Re: Boot lid springs
Post by Wayne24v on Oct 10^th, 2004, 6:32pm

on 10/10/04 at 17:48:37, Neil W wrote:

OK mate, tell him the packet of figs are on their way! ;D

Cheers,
Wayne