pop on the passengers side behind

[Tony Hoffman]

This is a fairly common and well documented problem. I replaced my
spring eventually on the V8, but for the time being I just stuck a
piece of foam into the flap to hold it closed. Pull the wipers, then
raintray. Then, stick some hard foam into the flap to hold it all the
way open.

Or, get the spring (I bought mine on ebay, but I'm sure there are
other sources for them) and replace it. It's not super hard, but not
real easy, either. It helps to have someone on the outside of the car
holding the door for you, to ease the fight against the door chile
trying to hook the spring.

Tony

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:41 PM,  <JeffreyZentner at colfaxnet.com> wrote:
> Hi all
> My daily driver is a 87 5K TQ.
> This evening on the way home I heard something pop on the passengers side behind
> the glove box. I removed the glove box and found an open door that I think might
> be the bypass air flap. The spring is still attached to the door but not on the
> other end. The spring is not broken. I can not tell where the other end was
> attached. I looked in my Bentley manual and I see a spring that looks like it
> is attached to the bottom but I looked in the car and it looks like it was
> attached to the vacume motor. Does anyone know where the other end of the
> spring was attached? Cold air was comming into the car can I just close the
> door preminly? any idias how to do that?
>
>  Jeff Zentner
>  87 5KTq
>  Alta Ca