Broken Door Spring
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From: Lakeland Florida
Broken Door Spring
I finally got tired of having my door always close and hit me in the leg. So I decided to replace the door spring, I found the reason for the problem still attached to the hinge, and I thought that this would be an easy 30 minutes fix. It took almost 90 minutes, with a beer break included to get this part on.
The special tool may have helped matters, but being the tight wad that I am, I decided to make my own special tool out of some extra metal I have laying around. Making 2 of these tools also took about 15 minutes of work, but I did save $6.00 in the process...or 1 six pack however you want to look at it.
Anyway...its in, and it works. The key to this is PATIENCE and lots of it.
kdf
The special tool may have helped matters, but being the tight wad that I am, I decided to make my own special tool out of some extra metal I have laying around. Making 2 of these tools also took about 15 minutes of work, but I did save $6.00 in the process...or 1 six pack however you want to look at it.
Anyway...its in, and it works. The key to this is PATIENCE and lots of it.
kdf
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St. Jude Donor '05
Ahh yes, I remember when I did mine a couple years ago, got it on a couple times and it poped off when I went to close the door, then I realized I had to push doen on the pin to set it in place, took me about an hour. . .amd I had the TOOL!!!!
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Joined: Feb 2006
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From: Ann Arbor MI
15 min fix. A little tip, after you get the spring lined up and in the bottom hole, go in from the side with a long screwdriver and pull up on the top of the spring. Be careful not to scratch the paint though.
Good luck, i fixed mine last saturday!
Chad
whoops guess you already did it... ahh well.
Good luck, i fixed mine last saturday!
Chad
whoops guess you already did it... ahh well.
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Joined: Aug 2001
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From: North Easton Mass
I did the driver's door spring last Sunday and it went in pretty easy. I followed the instructions on corvettefaq.com and also had the installation tool. If I had known what the tool looked like in advance I could have used my small crowbar instead and saved the $, but it sounds like spring replacements are a pretty common task on C3's so the tool will probably be used more than once.
Rick B.
Rick B.
