Can someone lay it out for me step by step and what tools I need? I am going to pull one for my car tomorrow so need to know. I have to travel 75 miles to go get it and don't want any surprises!
Take a socket set and a flat head screwdriver with you. You may also need something to dissolve or remove the double sided tape that is helping hold the wing onto the hatch. When I removed an SVT wing a couple of years ago I had removed two nuts and then used a plastic knife to cut at the double sided tape. The tape is almost an inch thick, so be prepared to take some time with it. I also used the flat head screwdriver as a wedge. Every time I would cut away at the tape, I would move the screwdriver up so I would have some separating force.
What did you need the open ended wrench for? I think I remember only using a 1/4" drive rachet with a socket and extension to get those two nuts out. But then again, I parted out that SVT almost two years ago so I may have forgotten something along the lines lol. The one thing I definitely remember is that stupid double sided tape that I had to remove to get the wing off.
The studs for the wing are facing straight down, and there is an access hole facing towards the downward facing stud so you need a combination wrench to get it loose. This is a 2002 SVT so may be diff than the one you parted out.
Ohhh ok, I took out the bolts with the hatch up. Then had it closed when I was removing the wing. But as I said, that double sided tape is probably the most pain in the ass part of the removal.
I have a great method for getting things off that are held on with double stick tape. Get a guitar string, the thinnest one. Tie each end on to a dowell rod about in inch in diameter and about 4in long. Slide the guitar string in the slot between the item that it stuck on to the car, and the car, hold each dowell rod in each hand with the string in between your two middle fingers and just slide the string between the item and the car. The tape slices right thru and the item releases right away.
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