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Spring Tooling pt1



Awww Tonee. Its a jury rig. Cut the head off the nut and replace the bumper. If you do a job, do it to the best of your ability!
It may only be a MKII (now that statement could get me shot), but it deserves the best :)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tonee Northam [mailto:pb3vr6@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2006 10:44 PM
>To: 'Eric Person', 'scirocco list'
>Subject: Re: Spring Tooling pt1
>
>I left the old bumper on, switched bumper covers and put the trim on. Tightening the bolts back down is going to be fun.
> 
> Now, on to the starting issue. The car will only start when I pt the jumper ack on. It runs fine but when I turn off the ignition and try to restart it it won 't turn over, lack of juice. I get dash lights but not enough to start.
>
>Eric Person <scirocco25@gmail.com> wrote:
> Time to find someone with an angle grinder. There's always one bolt on any
>project that fails to loosen.
>
>Eric
>
>On 5/4/06, Tonee Northam 
>wrote:
>>
>> So,
>>
>> Yesterday was day 1 of many to come getting the 84 8v ready for cincy.
>> Very minor thing really except for the either bad altenator/battery issue
>> and idle surging it's really not bad.
>> I got a entire rear bumper from Eric P.(thanks again) to swap out with
>> the old one that has broken clips on the cover. So, me thinks I can just
>> remove the entire thing put on my freshly painted one and that's it, well,
>> until I got down to the last bolt holding on like the titantic was going
>> under.
>> Snapped the welded-on nut on the back side arm, now she's spinning
>> freely like a 2-year old on a merry-go-round. So last night I decided that's
>> enough to mess with and moved on to other things like the radio, got that
>> figured out, but I looked in the "good book" and can't find out how to
>> replace the fender mounted antenna, do I just remove the fender liner or is
>> it accessible from the inside?
>>
>> Back to the garage, can't beat 70 degree weather for tooling.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Tonee
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