[T3] Car Body Questions....

[Jim Adney]

On 6 Jun 2013 at 16:44, J. Jonik wrote:

> 1-   Old plastic at the (never-used) windshield squirt nozzle broke
> apart just with a car washing rag wipe.  But, I have two spare parts
> cars with intact nozzles.   What's the trick to taking them off, in
> one piece, and installing? 

You have to get at them from below and squeeze a tab to release them. 
On later cars, this requires taking out the fan box.

> 2-  Driver side door needs a little shoulder to open...as if door
> frame is a bit out of whack. Hood springs open with perhaps a bit too
> much of a Boinngg. Once I heard right front wheel, while turned hard in
> a parking moment, actually rub the wheel well side.  When gas tank was
> out, there was a strip of eaten out metal just below where the tank
> sits. How the heck did THAT area get rusty?  And, is that area a part
> of car structure....you know...keeping the front end in line with the
> rest of the car? 

Yeah, everything's important to some degree, and rust is our biggest 
enemy.



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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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