trunk key hole cover
87BoxClassic
11-08-2006, 06:16 AM
is there anyway to fix the trunk key hole cover thing?, i have the part i went to a junkyard and they said they are near impossible to fix.(in my head i was like yeah rite, well he reached down and showed me a box of about 50 of them), so is it possible to fix i think it's just a spring but when i bought my 87 box it was glued on
PeteA216
11-08-2006, 12:18 PM
What exactly is broken on it? Is the emblem part of it broken off?
87BoxClassic
11-08-2006, 07:24 PM
yeah that emblem in your sig broke off the part where the trunk key hole is
PeteA216
11-09-2006, 12:04 AM
My thought would be to take off the entire unit (this may require you to drill out rivets that hold it on unless it was replaced at one point and its bolted on) Once you have it off, where the pivon point used to be, drill a hole all the way through. Then on the same place on the "door" part of the emblem droll a hold, but not all the way through. Add threads to the hole in the door part, and put a matching machine screw through the first hole and threat it into the back of the emblem. Make it tight enough where it sits nice, but loose enough that the latch can open. Use locktite to hold the screw in place if nessesary. Then get some bolts with lock washers and bolt that sucker back on using the same holes the rivets used.
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