Glove box lid.

[vince at performancecarstereo.com (Vince)]

I hear you on your dilema.  About 6 months ago I swapped my dash and the
glove box assembly was the hardest part.   For some reason I couldn't even
get to the point that you're at.  Something was wrong with my spring, for
the life of me I could never get it to work right.  It was always trying to
pull the glove box shut - no matter how I managed to rig it on there.
Either something was wrong with the parts or something was wrong with my
head - I'm not sure, but I gave up very quickly.  To this day I haven't had
the courage to face it again, so my lid doesn't stay up.

Rocco - 1
Vinny - 0



-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Robbie Cotner
Sent: June 15, 2003 2:45 PM
To: Mike Smith
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: Glove box lid.


If I recall correctly you can reattach the spring from under the dash, just
remove the passenger side under-dash cover and possible the vent tube(not
too hard).  HTH,

-Rob

Mike Smith <smithma7@yahoo.com> wrote:
Previous Owner had problems with it as the rear, right corner (and the arm)
had come apart. He epoxy'd it back together and worked fine. I bought it and
a few years later, the corne rstarted to come apart again. The control arm,
whether from preasure of the corner or from the spring inside (holds the lid
open), eventually broke and then the spring twisted around resulting in the
lid not holding itself open anymore.

Recently, I picked up a new lid. I removed the old and then glove box
itself. I put in the new lid and the spring attachment and it works fine.
One problem: I can't put the glove box back in with the lid installed, and I
can't hook the spring to the arm with the glove box installed. Will I need
to remove the whole dash to install all pieces properly? Or is there some
trick I'm missing here? Bently's not really a big help on this one.

Also, would Krazy Glue (tm) do the trick as far as repairing the original
lid or should I use some sort of epoxy like the PO? And would it stand up to
the preasure put on it by the spring? I'd like ot use the original lid as my
key fits it and I don't want to have to move the 16v logo from old to new
(new one's missing).

Thanks
Mike
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'86 red 16v
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