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Re: Door Assist Cylinders

To: Bricklin@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Door Assist Cylinders
From: "John T. Blair" <jblair1948@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 21:57:25 -0400
At 12:50 PM 5/8/2006 -0300, grants@unb.ca wrote:

>I have a set of assist cylinders but see the install may not be real 
>simple.  Is it a matter of screwing out the old and then in with the  
>new with a very thin wrench? or is it that the ball joints need to be 
>snaped out?

What I found really helps to have a helper. Remove the T pin on the lift 
cylinders.  Then you can actually lift the door a little higher and releive
the pressure on the assist struts.  The will pop of easily and pop on
easily then.

John


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