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On 5 Nov 2003 at 18:18, Paul Wilson wrote: > Success!! By the time I got through the second hinge, things were going > pretty smooth. We ended up removing the two pins from the hinge and > installing the two pieces separately. This worked!! Congratulations. I think I have done the "divide and conquer" method also. I've been thinking about these hinges over the past few weeks and kept wanting to quote a few lines from the manual that VW put in every glove box when the cars were delivered. Here's what VW said about Squareback rear hinges: "To open the lid, depress the lock and raise the lid until it is held in the fully open position by the torsion springs. Do not let the lid fly open on its own." To me, this says that VW recognized that these hinges were a weak point and needed to be treated somewhat carefully. The modern assumption that you can just open a hatch like this and let it fly up on its own is likely to quickly bend the hinges on a squareback. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org