[T3] Hood Spring

[J. Jonik]

There haven't been any postings (that I recall) about how to un-do and re-attach the big springs that hold up the hood...and the usual books don't get to that.

To repair rust damage in the trunk, just under one of those springs, I popped the spring hook off its notch with a heavy screwdriver.   It's good to maybe wrap the spring in a towel or something to make the snap less violent.   I didn't do that, but no trouble anyway.

BUT...putting that high-tension spring back on was another story.  I've done it before many years ago, but I forgot how I did it.
  Anyway, tricks with vice grips and pry bars didn't work...and the idea of using a come-along seemed doomed to fail.

  What worked was------- about two feet or so of narrow (about 3/4") pipe...just wide enough to slip onto the notch (closest notch to front) with the pipe fitting nicely into the spring hook.   Then pull the pipe to leverage the hook onto its notch.  The hook didn't just neatly slide into place...it had to be tapped, with a hammer, down the pipe until it snapped into the notch.     Easy.

 VW no doubt has a Special Tool for this.  What's it look like?
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