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WANTED retainer spring/heater slide/early btle/
toplessbug - January 22nd, 2007 at 09:39 AM

would anybody out there have an early btle (62) retainer spring for the heater slide (left hand side) missing one .
would pay but not sure how much as they r ridiculously small and could get posted in an envelope.
thanks


bushed - January 22nd, 2007 at 12:16 PM

is it in the foot well ?
so get the right hand one and copy it using a coathanger of same wire guage


toplessbug - January 22nd, 2007 at 06:58 PM

they are spring steel ,not mild steel wire so no thats no good , however i may have to make one from piano wire if i cant get a prebent one of the correct dimention's:beer


vw54 - January 22nd, 2007 at 07:44 PM

TAke a trip to yr local wrecker


bushed - January 22nd, 2007 at 09:25 PM

there are such tough coathangers in the bush TL

made a clip from one for the merc h/light retainer clippy

3 yrs later i changed the serpentine belt and founfd the orig. in the body crevice