Topic: Trunk Pull Springs

[1LILNDN]

I got Springs 23/32 x 4 3/8 x.072 but now , i'm not sure  if they were the correct ones. Joe or anyone that has these " CHIME in Please " haven't opened them Yet.

[DickW]

The correct springs are 5/8" x 2-1/2" x .072" .Lowes has them

[Sky 5]

If you mean the two little extra springs to help raise the decklid . . . . . . .



 go with a pair of 5/8" X 2 1/2" and might want to paint them black before installation.

[1LILNDN]

Damn I had them in my hand and though  they were to short Thanks Sky5 will return these after on wednesday

[elff]

I DO NOT recommend doing this mod in the way it is displayed in the picture.
I had the part that was drilled break and it is a PITA to replace them. 

You can do this mod WITHOUT drilling.
I wish I had known that prior to doing this.  I forget who posted how, but it's in the original thread.

[TomatoSoup]

I DO NOT recommend doing this mod in the way it is displayed in the picture.
I had the part that was drilled break and it is a PITA to replace them.  

You can do this mod WITHOUT drilling.
I wish I had known that prior to doing this.  I forget who posted how, but it's in the original thread.

Yeah, you just have to take some needle-nose pliers & open up one end of the spring a little first, then hook it around the torsion bar itself, on the far side of the hooked flat steel lever arm (as you see it in the picture above).

[DeepBlueGXP]

I have them installed liek the photo above for some time now and I've installed about 10 others.  Not sure how you had yours fail Elff but none of the ones I've done have.

[chuckdoc]

Joe did mine and it works perfectly.

[elff]

I will admit, mine was user error.  But I was only slightly off from the drill point that is illustrated in the picture.
It is very easy to drill 1/8" off the mark and that is enough to have the steel arm break.

So why take the chance?

You can accomplish the exact same end result without drilling.
So all the benefits, with no chance of breakage.

That's a win win. 

[MARVIC 1]

You can accomplish the exact same end result without drilling.
So all the benefits, with no chance of breakage.

I have tried mounting the spring on the round lever that moves back when the trunk in closing and it just slips off...
elff can you post a picture or explanation as to the way you have yours set-up?

[TomatoSoup]

I have tried mounting the spring on the round lever that moves back when the trunk in closing and it just slips off...
elff can you post a picture or explanation as to the way you have yours set-up?

As I said above, you put on the "round lever" (the torsion bar) but on the OTHER side of the flat hook, between the flat metal part and the right angle in the torsion bar.  Then it can't slip off.  You just have to open the spring end up a little to be able to hook it over the bar.

[tazzman]

Put the spring over the end of the bar and then add an axil hat nut think the size is 3/8  mine has been on for 3 yrs. this is also at lowes.

[1LILNDN]

axil hat <-----What is that ,You know the next thing that comes to mind Right ?

[1LILNDN]

Put the spring over the end of the bar and then add an axil hat nut think the size is 3/8  mine has been on for 3 yrs. this is also at lowes.

 

[MARVIC 1]

axil hat <-----What is that ,You know the next thing that comes to mind Right ?

This is what one type of "Axil Hat Nut" looks like....

[tazzman]

Thank you MARVIC 1 just tap it on the end after you put the spring on. If no one can figure this out I will get pixs.

I posted pictures

[Sly Bob]

Not sure what the diameter of the rod is guys but Lowes sells them.

http://www.lowes.com/pl__4294856646+4294829725_4294937087_

[elff]

I have tried mounting the spring on the round lever that moves back when the trunk in closing and it just slips off...
elff can you post a picture or explanation as to the way you have yours set-up?

Marvic
Hopefully tomatosoups' explanation is good enough.  I don't have a picture and I don't have my sky right now.
it is in the body to repair the front bumper and do some blacking out of items I had wrapped in vinyl.

[tazzman]

Pictures of spring and the axil hat nut
Hope this helps