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RE: Aaaaaaargh! Help! Hood/Bonnet Hinge

To: Becky Hart <behart@mesa5.mesa.colorado.edu>
Subject: RE: Aaaaaaargh! Help! Hood/Bonnet Hinge
From: "Elliott, Patrick" <PElliott@attws-wr.swest.attws.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:33:45 -0800
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Reply-to: "Elliott, Patrick" <PElliott@attws-wr.swest.attws.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
8 hours is overkill, As Ulix said five fasteners, drop the dash far enough
to get to the bolt, remove bolt, put dash back up, no need to disconnect
anything electrical.
> ----------
> From:         Ulix Goettsch[SMTP:ulix@u.washington.edu]
> Reply To:     Ulix Goettsch
> Sent:         Monday, February 22, 1999 3:50 PM
> To:   Becky Hart
> Cc:   spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject:      Re: Aaaaaaargh! Help! Hood/Bonnet Hinge 
> 
> Becky,
> I THINK I have done it with the dash in place, but I have small hands.  
> Normally you would have to remove the dash.  One screw on each side, three
> bolts vertically up into the body of the car.
> Ulix
> 
> 
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Becky Hart wrote:
> 
> > My '67 Midget is in the body shop getting worked on and they can't
> > figure out how to take off the bonnet hinges. They say there's not
> > enough room to reach behind the dashboard(barely enough room to get a
> > wrench in there) Is there some kind of a trick to it? Please help. I
> > have the Porter book, but I can't find anything in there.
> > 
> > Becky
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>     Ulix                                       __/__,__      ___/__|\__  
> ..............................................(_o____o_)....<_O_____O_/...
>                                               '67 Sprite     '74 X1/9
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