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Offline 85AmCfreak

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Re: How do I install interior tailight cover in SX/4?
« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2011, 01:21:07 PM »
I believe the back panel covering the taillights and wiring is the last to be installed.The company wouldn't make you remove all the rear interior panels just to change a tail bulb. Mine is flexible so I just bend it a little, push in certain spots and it slips right in.
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Re: How do I install interior tailight cover in SX/4?
« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2011, 01:21:47 PM »
Quote from: shaggimo on August 25, 2011, 01:09:21 PM
I haven't actually got around to putting those peices back on the sx/4 yet  :-[ . Is it possible to put the back piece on first, I can't remember how they came off? I do remember it was necessary to take one off before the other though, lol.

I initially thought that might be the case after my first failed attempt to install it, but I don't think anymore that that would work.  I think the problem was the first time I installed it I had the right side tilted high, put the lowered left side in the channel and tried to force the right side down into the channel.  This made the overall width too long to fit in between the quarter panel trim pieces as the diagnoal measurement from right lower corner to left upper corner of the tailight cover was longer than the measurement straight across with the panel level.  You want to put the tailight panel in the hatch opening with its bottom paralell to the hatch floor, tilt the bottom of the tailight panel inwards towards the tailight, slide the bottom of the tailight panel into position  in the quarter panel channels, and then tilt the top of the tailight panel intowards the tailights and into the channels.  I hope you can understand that, it would be easier if I could show you but now that I've finally got it in place I don't want to pull it out to make a video on how to install it.
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Re: How do I install interior tailight cover in SX/4?
« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2011, 02:34:53 PM »
lol, I don't blame ya, I wouldn't want to pull it back out either. I get what you're saying though, makes sense, thanks for the tip, I'll have to remember that if I ever get around to finishing the interior, lol.
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Re: How do I install interior tailight cover in SX/4?
« Reply #18 on: August 27, 2011, 01:33:03 AM »
Im glad you got that back in...Alot of these old Eagles still got alot of fight left in em.  ;D
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Re: How do I install interior tailight cover in SX/4?
« Reply #19 on: August 27, 2011, 10:22:39 AM »
Quote from: shanebo on August 27, 2011, 01:33:03 AM
Im glad you got that back in...Alot of these old Eagles still got alot of fight left in em.  ;D

Yes, the interior quarter panel covers were much worse, a real struggle.
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