How to remove '86 Coupe Air Vent?
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Ok, brace yourself !
While in there, you have pretty decent access to the cavity between the wheel arch and the outer panel. Strongly recommended to use a garden sprayer or an airgun of some sort, to blow rust killer and antirust stuff in here. It must be thin, I used AquaSteel, followed by wax. Some photos attached. Good luck
- Remove the rear seat (two small bolts under the squab does the bottom, then the top has a couple of self tappers at the bottom, thenn a sharp shove upwards releases the top "hooks")
- peel off the furfelt from the rear of the door jamb, the B pillar. Peel back the outer edge of the leather and find two or three small self tappers holding the card to the B pillar.
- unbolt the fairlead for the seat belt from the pillar
- unscrew the self tapper holding the rear of the armrest
- an upwards clonk unhooks the arm rest, speaker etc from the window aperture, pull off the speaker leads and shove the armrest aside
- remove the window by CAREFULLY prizing it out of the rubber.
- remove the rubber
- drill out the under window chrome trim securing pop rivets, these may well be rusted
- remove the under window chrome strip
- inside the boot up in the buttress, feel where the corner trim is secured and undo the tiny bolt holding it in place, remove the piece
- drill out the pop rivets you will see holding the leading edge of the black trim to the C pillar under the rubber you have removed
- CAREFULLY prize off the chrome trim that runs down the back edge of the black panel, it is just clipped over specially raised head rivets
- now drill out the rivets you will find
- pull off the black panel.
While in there, you have pretty decent access to the cavity between the wheel arch and the outer panel. Strongly recommended to use a garden sprayer or an airgun of some sort, to blow rust killer and antirust stuff in here. It must be thin, I used AquaSteel, followed by wax. Some photos attached. Good luck
Last edited by Greg in France; 03-07-2016 at 01:47 AM.
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