Friday, April 28, 2006 - 08:48 am, by: Mike Triggs(Mikeandimah)
The boot release catch is a little cracked on our car, and I'd like to take it off to have a go at repair, but I cannot get the thing off. I took all the lower dash stuff off but can't figure out how to remove the panel and catches without damage. It would seem logical to remove the cables from the catches but that proved difficult also.
Has anyone done this?
Cheers, Mike
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Friday, April 28, 2006 - 07:59 pm, by: Ben Socratous(Socrates)
Just keep tugging on the cables. Or more to the point, the connectors on their ends. They let go sooner or later, usually followed by blood pouring out of your hands and the creation of new and improved coarse language, but they do come off! Once you get that dash panel out of the car, it's just 2 phillips head screws and a quick lever with a flat head and presto, you've just removed your switch panel!
Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 10:28 am, by: Mike Triggs(Mikeandimah)
I managed to fix it this morning. It's a matter of undoing enough of the dash on right hand side to get at the back of the lower dash panel. The lock unscrews from the back, and the bonnet release has to be unscrewed. The fuel lid and boot release have the same click in connectors as everything else, and then the panel can be taken out.
The bonnet release (cracked) looked difficult to fix so I merely swapped '97 for '97 even though that meant two dashes to play with.
Jero Evans Tinkerer TAS JZZ30 (TT) + GJ Sigma wagon
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 - 04:00 pm, by: Mike Triggs(Mikeandimah)
Mike Triggs wrote on Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 10:28 am:
The bonnet release (cracked) looked difficult to fix so I merely swapped '97 for '97 even though that meant two dashes to play with
Not important, but what I should have said here was the boot release cracked so swapped '95 boot/fuel release assembly for the '97 one, which meant I had both cars apart but it wasn't too bad, other than the actual getting down there bit (old, tall and not very bendy)
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