FisterD

My broom helper is not very cooperative, and often takes a break while my head is way inside the hood area. That is why I prefer a live body helper. Someone I can bribe with the reward of free beer!

pjc

Kelly,

Wondered if the reason a screw had been used was because the plastic clip holder on the section of the air filter box not shown in your pics is broken? If this is the case a new clip will not help - nothing to fix it too. Hope I'm not the prophet of doom!

PJC

jford

Awesome. I am doing my hood shocks as soon as I can get them ordered and delivered. Makes sense to do this before I do my front suspension and not after. Thanks for the insperation.

nile13

Kelly, Darin, thank you, guys!
Only two questions remain now :-) Do you stick you hand in there to clip the new lower shock in place? And do you retreive the old clip for a cosmetic reason only? I probabbly wouldn't car at all if the old clips live down there in perpetuity :-)

JPS

Wow...thanks...and my soon to be no longer bruised top of my head thanks you too.

kkim

I hope not. A fellow Rennlister was kind enough to email me a parts diagram of the air box and I ordered what appeared to be a clip that was available seperately. We'll see when it arrives. My feeling is that someone was in a rush to finish the job and used the cheapest, fastest way to get it done. Backyard engineering at it's worst.

ecobb993

kkim,

My old fronts were of two different clip designs (looked to be 964 numbers). Both came off the same way - a peacemaker sized screwdriver to pop them off. And the new ones, I bought mine from Pelican Parts, just popped on, in contrast to the complicated methodology outlined in Robin's DIY, which probably could be updated to reflect the new part design.

Go for it - then sit back and hava Banana Mango Smoothie while you bask in the glory of completing another DIY

kkim

If you prepare the clips as explained in Robin's DIY, the socket just popped over the ball joint and the clip snapped into place. I didn't have to get my hand down there to do this... just position the socket over the ball and push it on.

The old clip can stay down there, however, I didn't know if it would slide around and make noises when cornering, so I didn't want to leave it in. Something like that would drive me crazy! Also, I don't know if there is anything down there that could be damaged by it floating free down in the "abyss".

btw, the abyss is not as bad as it is made out to sound. I think if you have a dark colored car, finding a black clip in there might be difficult, but with a flashlight you should be able to find it. With my car being a light color, the clip was very easy to see once it had popped off during the removal process.

Good luck... give it a try as it isn't quite as foreboding as the DIY makes it sound... at least it wasn't for me. YMMV

Edward

Hmmm, 52 posts for an "easy" DIY job.....
Good thing it wasn't something difficult!

FisterD

We just to like Beat That Dead Horse a little more!