RE: Removing trunk shocks '85 4kq

["Browning David (TVCS)" <BrowningD@tce.com>]

I've done this twice in the last year.  I think I've finally discovered an
"easy" way to put them back on.  I put the end closest to the seat in first
(back in the cubby-hole).  They generally snap on pretty easily.  But I
always struggled getting the other end on, pushing up on the trunk lid and
finding that the strut is too long.  But then I simply took a screw driver
and bracing the tip of the screwdriver on the body (under the back window),
used it as a lever to force the other end on the little nub.  I'm not sure I
explained that well, but I hope it helps; and I hope I don't forget it too.

dB

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Fourkguy@aol.com [SMTP:Fourkguy@aol.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, October 01, 1998 2:11 AM
> To:	epicfoto@lava.net; quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	Re: Romoving trunk shocks '85 4kq
> 
> In a message dated 10/1/98 3:00:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> epicfoto@lava.net
> writes:
> 
> << There has to be an easier way...  if somebody
>  knows of one, please let me know  :-) >>
> 
> It's really not that hard. There is a clip that goes around the
> circumference
> of the shock at both ends. Looks like a sheet metal band that goes 90
> percent
> around. If you can get a good look at it at either end, the job is pretty
> easy. Just get a screwdriver under an open end of the clip and pry it off.
> The
> shock will completely remove its grip once this clip is removed. To put on
> the
> new shock, you don't have to remove the clip, just snap it on.
> 
> Good Luck, 
> 
> Jeff