Date:         Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:20:08 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
Subject:      Re: deck r & r
Comments: To: Carl Cobb <c123666@earthlink.net>
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At 06:46 PM 4/23/2001, Carl Cobb wrote:
>Boy, I've not done this in twenty years easy.  I cannot find, in the bentley
>manual for our 87 syncro westie, how to get at the deck and remove.  We want
>to upgrade the stereo ourselves and need to know these things.
>
>Can anyone advise the quick and dirty way ('er, without a crowbar, thank
>you) to do it?

Probably there are two pairs of holes, one on either side of the radio --
possibly under the bezel?  Anyway, if you bend up a couple lengths of
coathanger wire to fit, you can shove them in the holes to release the
catches.  Radio then pulls out.  There's a rubber knob at the rear -- fits
over a bolt on the radio and into the support bracket in the dash.  Might
stay either place, but you want to save it for the new one; place it on the
bolt before shoving the radio in.  Pull the ashtray to get a better view
from above and to make sure that antenna cable etc. are not being pinched
when you install.

d


>Regards,

David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"