- - what's up with my glovebox ? ?

[lurtch]

Hello All,

My glovebox is now disassembled for refurbishment and it is clear why it never closed properly. There seems to be some kind of spring or bellcrank thing missing. Is there supposed to be a hairpin type spring connecting the two standoffs? How was the stop rod attached to the door? brazed? As you can see, it is obvious that some cheeseball repairs were made at some point. A screw hole was drilled through the door and the rod has had threads tapped into it.

Can someone post a photo of how it is supposed to be?

Many Thanks for any assistance,      Larry in CA

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[waqas]

Yes, there's supposed to be a spring between the two "standoffs".

Sorry I can't help with a picture of mine, but you can clearly see the parts in the following figure from the SLS website:

[waqas]

ok, I searched through the forums and found the following:

Previously posted pictures of spring and forks from this thread: http://index.php?topic=8000,spring[/url]




Other glove box spring-related discussions:
http://index.php?topic=7054,spring[/url]
http://index.php?topic=2138,spring[/url]
http://index.php?topic=5035,spring[/url]

[graphic66]

I think I would braze it back into place. You will then need to paint the glove box door though. You also could weld it with a MIG, or any other method of welding. I am just better at brazing in a situation like that. I think a braze would be very clean and strong. Just get the area real clean and bare.

[scoot]

quote:Originally posted by graphic66

I think I would braze it back into place. You will then need to paint the glove box door though. You also could weld it with a MIG, or any other method of welding. I am just better at brazing in a situation like that. I think a braze would be very clean and strong. Just get the area real clean and bare.

I recently saw a glovebox door on ebay -- might be easier and cheaper to start with that if you can find one...

[scoot]

Regarding the two forks and the spring -- we just bought these from the Classic Center because ours were missing.  There was a slight problem.  When installed, the spring was sufficiently tight around the two forks as they slid against each other that the forks stayed stuck in the compressed position, resulting in them falling off the pivot points when you move the door.  The solution was to slightly grind the edges of each fork to make them a little bit more narrow such that the spring didn't squeeze them against each other.   FYI.