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Interior! / Re: Armrest Nuts
« on: May 22, 2018, 11:21:01 pm »
I went with Rivnuts and they worked well.
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Interior! / Armrest Nuts
« on: August 12, 2017, 12:20:23 am »
I have found two replacement armrests for my (new to me) EV. I now realize that the brazed-in nuts in the backrest have broken free and I have nothing to thread the armrests into. Does anyone have a trick for fixing this? My last resort is to drill out the backrest sheet metal to accept a M8 Rivnut.
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Interior! / Re: How do you remove hatch panel
« on: August 12, 2017, 12:17:14 am »
I found getting the panel off fairly reasonable, getting it back on was a real challenge. A few things I learned that worked for me-
1. Epoxy the plastic clips back on. Clean the clips and the panel with isopropyl alcohol before gluing. Note that the clips have different thickness because the panel and the hatch have some curvature. I used the witness marks of the glue to figure out which clip went where.
2. The metal clips on the hatch are impossible to engage when trying to slide the panel back on the hatch. My solution was to cut small 1/2in spacers to pry the metal clips open enough to engage the plastic clips during reassembly. I made little 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/4 spacers on the table saw, and used two per metal clip. I put them in ever so slightly so that when the panel was slid in, the epoxied plastic clips knocked the spacers out while they engaged the metal clips. See attached pic. I actually had to make larger spacers than shown in the pic. The pic was 3/8in and those weren't enough.
1. Epoxy the plastic clips back on. Clean the clips and the panel with isopropyl alcohol before gluing. Note that the clips have different thickness because the panel and the hatch have some curvature. I used the witness marks of the glue to figure out which clip went where.
2. The metal clips on the hatch are impossible to engage when trying to slide the panel back on the hatch. My solution was to cut small 1/2in spacers to pry the metal clips open enough to engage the plastic clips during reassembly. I made little 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/4 spacers on the table saw, and used two per metal clip. I put them in ever so slightly so that when the panel was slid in, the epoxied plastic clips knocked the spacers out while they engaged the metal clips. See attached pic. I actually had to make larger spacers than shown in the pic. The pic was 3/8in and those weren't enough.
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