Windscreen insert

Windscreen insert

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kleaky88

Original Poster:

303 posts

237 months

Tuesday 6th June 2006
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Go on then, I give in. How the flippin heck do you fit the chrome insert into the seal?? I can't even get it started. Can I home make some kind of tool to assist me??

guru_1071

2,768 posts

241 months

Tuesday 6th June 2006
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use the tool and lube with WD40

easy!

kleaky88

Original Poster:

303 posts

237 months

Tuesday 6th June 2006
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what tool?? Can I make one?

Extra 300 Driver

5,281 posts

253 months

Tuesday 6th June 2006
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One of these

miniman

26,343 posts

269 months

Tuesday 6th June 2006
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Think you need one of these:



About £8 from MiniSpares or MiniSport.

Wildfire

9,832 posts

259 months

Tuesday 6th June 2006
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Yep use the tool, and washing up liquid.

guru_1071

2,768 posts

241 months

Tuesday 6th June 2006
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wd40

washing up has salt in it. - its gets into the rubber and rusts the scuttle - and foams for weeks afterwards!

wildoliver

8,999 posts

223 months

Tuesday 6th June 2006
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IS it the chromed plastic? if so there is a far simpler solution!!!!

kleaky88

Original Poster:

303 posts

237 months

Wednesday 7th June 2006
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it is the chromed plastic. So whats the simple solution?

wildoliver

8,999 posts

223 months

Wednesday 7th June 2006
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Wd40 or silicone spray, lubricate the channel up nicely, take a block of very soft wood, something like rough pine and a medium hammer and hently tap the finisher in to place.

Sounds crazy but i've done it on about 20 mini's which I have resprayed and if your gentle it works brilliantly.

You do sometimes need to start it off with a screwdriver to tease the rubber over the start of the strip.

Extra 300 Driver

5,281 posts

253 months

Wednesday 7th June 2006
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Interesting but I will stick to the tool!

kleaky88

Original Poster:

303 posts

237 months

Friday 23rd June 2006
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WD40 and a coathanger twisted into a diamond like the tool. Worked a treat, front and back. And for the areas that didn't quite go in - a gentle tap in with a mallet as suggested. Thanks guys.

Still can't open that chuffing door tho. The mechanism is still locked in place and I have tried everything.