How to access struts for waterfall?
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Pro
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From: west coast of Canada
How to access struts for waterfall?
How do I access the struts for the waterfall? What do I have to remove? It looks like it should be obvious but I've damaged my share of parts doing a job that appeared to be easy.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Mark
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Mark
Melting Slicks
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From: Appleton WI
The piece that you're referring to is the Tonneau cover. The waterfall is the piece between the seats that the Tonneau cover lock into. I unfortunately cannot help any further as I own a Z06.
Burning Brakes
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I changed my struts on my trunk, hood and tonneau cover when I got my C5 three years ago. The tonneau cover was the hardest, but I climbed into the trunk and changed them from in there. I had to leave the tonneau cover down to do that because you can't have the trunk and tonneau cover open at the same time.
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I changed my struts on my trunk, hood and tonneau cover when I got my C5 three years ago. The tonneau cover was the hardest, but I climbed into the trunk and changed them from in there. I had to leave the tonneau cover down to do that because you can't have the trunk and tonneau cover open at the same time.
Cheers,
Mark
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Thanks for the reply helphos. I was hoping there was some technique where you could raise the tonneau cover and trunk at the same time. Since that is not possible, I thought I might go into the trunk area by crawling in behind the seat with the tonneau vertical, so the struts were stretched out when I changed them. I'm supposed to get my struts before the end of Sept so I'll be waiting until then before I give it a shot.
Cheers,
Mark
Cheers,
Mark
don't kill yourself, it is super simple.
I'll try to find the post where I explained it.
hang on.
TCFS
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