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Subject:Re: installing new luggage rack seals
From:Tom Salicos
Date:Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:48:50 -0700

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joy Hecht" <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:10 AM
Subject: installing new luggage rack seals

> I'm about to install the new seal on my luggage rack, and was just
> wondering
> if there's anything I should know aside from the obvious.  There are four
> screws on the front and sides of the rack, four on the back, and I assume
> I
> remove them, remove the rack, then pull out the old seal and put on the
> new
> one.
>

I'd add that the slotted screws around the sides and front of the rack do
not have a very deep groove and it is easy for the screwdriver to slip out
and scratch the paint.  (AMHIK)

Use a very large flat tip screwdriver.

Tom Salicos

'87 Syncro Westy EG-33