In reply to a message from William de Creeft sent Wed 24 Oct 2007:
The ‘‘S’’ shaped door retainer clip can be installed without
disturbing the hinge or removing anything from the car. I was told
there is a GM tool available to do this job but when I borrowed it
it would not work on the Jaguar spring.
The problem I faced was I could see lots of way to get it on but
each of those methods would probably have left marks on the hinge.
Seeing this was my Concours car and all marks earn points
deductions. That would not have been acceptable to me.
I ended up making a tool which consisted of a dog legged shaped
piece of metal 7 inches long of 1/4’’ thick by 1/2’’ wide and I
welding two small blocks on it to allow it to be used as both a
holding in place and a twisting tool. Place the spring over the
hinge in the general position it sits in with the bottom leg
located properly deep in the bottom of the hinge. Then using this
tool, place it over the top of the spring so that the blocks allow
you to twist the top part of the spring into position. While still
holding the spring in a tensed position, tap on top of the spring
to drive it down into a locked position. All done.
In short the spring locates in a slot at both the bottom and top of
the hinge. The slot one at the bottom of the hinge is deeper than
the top one, allowing more movement on the spring. You have to be
able to keep the bottom leg located as deep as possible while you
are twisting the spring and locating over the top slot. Then by
tapping on the top you are driving the spring down to locate in the
top slot, while not allowing the bottom part to pop out.
Hope this helps someone.
The ‘‘S’’ shaped door retainer clip can be installed without
disturbing the hinge or removing anything from the car. I was told
there is a GM tool available to do this job but when I borrowed one
it would not work on the Jaguar spring.
The problem I faced was, I could see lots of way to get it on but
each of those methods would probably have left marks on the hinge.
Seeing this was my Concours car and all marks earn points
deductions. That would not have been acceptable to me.
I ended up making a tool which consisted of a dog legged shaped
piece of metal 7 inches long of 1/4’’ thick by 1/2’’ wide. I welding
two small blocks on it to allow it to be used as both a holding in
place and a twisting tool. Place the spring over the hinge in the
general position it sits in with the bottom leg located properly,
which is deep in the bottom of the hinge. Then using this tool,
place it over the top of the spring so that the blocks allow you to
twist the top part of the spring into position. While still holding
the spring in a tensed position, tap on top of the spring to drive
it down into a locked position which would be located into the slot
at the top of the hinge.
All done.
In short the spring locates in a slots at both the bottom and top
of the hinge. The slot at the bottom of the hinge is deeper than
the top one, allowing more upwards movement on the spring. You have
to be able to keep the bottom leg located as deep as possible while
you are twisting the spring and locating over the slot in the top
of the hinge. Then by tapping on the top of the spring you are
driving the spring down to locate in this top slot. Trick is to do
this while not allowing the bottom part to pop out of the slot at
the bottom of the hinge.
Hope this helps someone.–
The original message included these comments:
What did you do?
Or is it just one of those things you have to see ??
I just found my new spring the other day and I want to do it before I
lose it again, and I never built Bob’s tool…
Bill
–
Bob
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