Aspirator motor project/broken glove compartment...

[Kneale Brownson]

There's a plastic clip--sort of like a C-clip with the back of the C 
flattened out and bent over--that holds the lock assembly from going 
forward out of its square hole through the skin of the box, Steve.  The top 
of the clip looks sort of like a shroud over the rest of the lock 
assembly.  You just wiggle on that shroud and the clip slides upward.  Then 
you compress the lock release handles on the outside (the way you "open" 
the box),  and the latching assembly slides out.  The clip was real loose 
in my '86 parts car's glovebox, but was not as willing to slide out of the 
'87.  You might want to spray a little something that makes the plastic 
more slippery (WD40, Armorall, etc.) on the whole area and let it soak in a 
bit.


At 02:13 AM 08/14/2001 +0000, Stephen Ankney wrote:

>Listers,
>I spent an hour today laying on the floor of my car twisted up like a 
>pretzel trying to replace the stupid aspirator motor located up under the 
>dash. After finally getting the "new" one in and working, I went to attach 
>the glove compartment. To my horror I noticed one of the mounting slide 
>brackets on the glove box had broken off! Arrrghhh! Audi gods win again!
>
>So now I need another glove box which is really not much of a problem as I 
>can just go over to the local boneyard and pick one up. The problem with 
>getting a new glove box is how do I remove the lock assembly from the old 
>one so I can use it on the new one? I really need to have a lockable glove 
>compartment. Any ideas? I just looked at it quickly before going to work 
>and I did'nt see an easy way to disassemble...?
>
>Steve Ankney
>88 5000
>Holland, MI
>
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