Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:44:26 -0800
Reply-To: bob bob <heymrpep@YAHOO.COM>
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From: bob bob <heymrpep@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: removal of rear door panel
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good advice to get a specific tool...but i was able to remove my rear panel(which had a whole in it and my plan was to replace it) with out any (further) harm to it using my household molding removal tool. it is pretty much a smaller, flatter, wider v shaped pry bar and are about 7 bucks at lowes(mine is a stanley), and you can use it for all kinds of other purposes too!
peace
don p
84 westy
carolina, ri
----- Original Message ----
From: Zoltan <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:52:04 PM
Subject: Re: removal of rear door panel
The best is if you get the right tool for this job. It goes around the
button and pops it up without damage if you do it right.
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Salicos" <Tom@SALICOS.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: removal of rear door panel
> Having shreaded a panel that had been on for many many years, and ripped a
> fastener out of the thin pressed wood of a relatively new panel, I'm
> thinking the fasteners get kind of stuck to the sheet metal of the hatch.
> So I wonder if tapping on them and working on either side of the fastener
> to
> try and gradually work them out might be better than than just *popping*
> them out.
>
> A very stout kitchen spatula or two might be the ticket.
>
> Tom Salicos
> '87 Syncro Westy EG-33
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Goubeaux" <john@UCSB.EDU>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 1:45 PM
> Subject: removal of rear door panel
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can someone give me a little insight as to the best way to pop off the
>> panel that covers the rear door on a vanagon. Ie i need to get to motor
>> for the rear windshield wiper. The plastic (i assume push in)
>> snaps/fasteners are stubborn. Is it best to use a flat tool and slide it
>> under the panel, popping the whole thing as I go?
>>
>> There has to be a proper technique so as not to mash up the panel?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -john
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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