I tapped mine out with a phillips head. easy-peasy.
Michael in San Antonio
91GL Weekender AT 2.1L 'Gringo'
73 Beetle

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@yahoo.com>wrote:

> Sorry.  I MAY not have the right name for this "pin", but in my vocabulary,
> a Westy arm-rest drift pin is a metal tube about the length of a hairpin
> (maybe shorter) and about the diameter of an elbow spaghetti..... BUT, it is
> completely cut from end to end so that it will compress when forced/banged
> into a tunnel type hole,  like the one on the westy arm rest.
>
> One can use a blunt (cut off) nail the size of the tunnel to bang the pin
> out of the tunnel, or one can buy a real tool to do it.
>
> Again, I may have the names mixed up here.  Malcolm
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> ________________________________
> From: "mcneely4@cox.net" <mcneely4@cox.net>
>
>  Malcolm, I still don't know what a "drift in" is.  Is that the pin that I
> punched out, referred to in the post referenced below as a "steel plug?
>  Seems such an odd term that I feel a need to know.  Thanks, DMc
>