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Subject:Re: installing new luggage rack seals
From:Doug Alcock
Date:Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:54:13 -0400

Hi Joy -- Here are some instructions I posted a few years back:
http://doug.alcock.googlepages.com/poptopseals
though you've received plenty of advice already :-)

Cheers,
Doug

On 9/26/06, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Is there more to it than that?  The info in the Bentley is singularly
> useless - they have luggage racks and interior head panel on the same
> page,
> with a lot of photos.  From the layout of the photos it would appear that
> one has to remove the interior panel to remove the luggage rack - there's
> no
> labeling to indicate which photos go with which instructions.
>
> Is that actually necessary?  Do I have to remove any interior screws to
> get
> the rack off, or just the eight exterior ones?
>
> And is there anything else I should know before I get to it?
>
> Oh, and right, I didn't find anything in the archives on this
> subject!  :-)
>
>
>
> Joy
>
>
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> Joy Hecht
> now living in a real house in northern Virginia
> and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
> now living in the driveway and resting after two and a half years
> lugging Joy and her stuff around...
>
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>
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