uh-oh what the heck is this something broke
hey guys I've binned back in the garage here so today I'm gonna go over a quick maintenance
item on my trunk gutters and then my little trunk panel back here so last couple times has rained I
noticed that I've been getting a bunch of leaves and water pulling up right here in the gutter and
I figured something was clogged or there was a bunch of crap stuck in there so I'm gonna go take
care of that today and clean that out and then I also noticed that my little flap thing on my
trunk striker broke so I'm gonna go take care of that with some jb weld and kind of glue it
back together see if that works so stay tuned so recently when I was working on this trunk I
noticed this little flap thing kind of broke on me and it looks like just over time the little clips
that hook onto this little rod broke I think the only way to really fixed that is to replace that
whole panel which I don't want to do today I'm gonna take that apart I'm gonna try to rig it with
some jb weld and some MacGyver [ __ ] to see if I can fix that while I'm in here I'm also gonna go
ahead and replace or not replace but take these off right here these little side panels they're
only held on by 3m tape and the reason why I'm taking it because over the years probably the 13
years I've been driving this car just stuff gets caked up in there just tree branches leaves dirt
and all that crap and it's just kind of filled that crap up so it's not draining so I just end
up with a bunch of crap here every time I wash the car so I'm gonna go ahead and just take that
off it's held on only by 3m tape so I should be able to just peel that off replace the 3m tape and
get it get it back to factory looking again and then let them so the water can drain through and
some nasty stuff in there I'm about to put on some gloves right now to clean all this
out but is this basically 13 years worth of leaves and junk that drains into this panel
and we got some bugs over there crawling so I'm about to clean this all up degrease it
and then peel that old tape off so I could put the new 3m tape that piece came out
pretty good the hardest part was just trying to get that old tape that tape is pretty good
on there and the rest of this tape down here is just kind of worn down so that wasn't the
issue is this the side pieces just getting all those be careful not to deform it too much so
I end up put popping out these side clips to the only problem is I broke some of these clips right
here that hold it on right there they look like a normal panel clip until I started inspecting
it more and it looks like I want the the pair that the trim side gets this little male piece
and then that other panel side gets this female piece that kind of messes in but the way you look
at if you look at the thing it looks like your normal panel where you slide it through you know
horizontally in on this side basically just slides in horizontally here I've got a whole
box full of different panel clips so I'll see what I can find that will fit but you got to be
careful with that piece should take out the tail light to do it but I just kind of flipped that or
I wedged that little piece past the tail light and I just kind of hold pulled it horizontally
and it held on by a couple of pieces of 3m tape that didn't really do much these clips are what
really keep it in the dirt and crap back here is not that bad so you really don't need to take that
side off and risk breaking the clips if you don't have to is really up here's where all the crap is
I use acetone and that brake parts cleaner to clean up all the old residue so pretty much
everything is cleaned up off of here on both sides it's all about the prep work for the
new tape so I'll do the I'll finish this up and then I'll get the other side one little mishap
I saw cleaning it up I saw it broke the little clip on these VLAN so might take these head tail
lights off and just glue that back or jb weld that little clip back it's not a critical clip
it just kind of clips into that piece of trim panel and keeps it in so I'll take care of that
so we got this whole piece out this part was the hard part the tricky part you have
to actually take out those anchors on either side because that thing is tucked underneath
those clips are pretty easy those three Killip sand then the ones on the bottom or these panel
clips which also pop off pretty easily so it looks like what happened here was it's
supposed to have that little thing over here just like that but it broke off on this side
so I'm about to go find some think I've seen one of my kids have like a bead that I can
use to rig something on with some jb weld and see like it can hold so we'll go try that now
so I found it these Peller beads that's what my kids play with all the time so I found some of
these and I've been eyeing it because it looked like it fit and won't behold it does fit so yeah
I tested it right there and it fits right on the edge so I'm not to take this whole thing
apart and try to fit that in there and figure out a way to put it in and just JB walled it
so let this baby dry overnight so the jb weld I put on here it's kind of clumpy and
ghetto looking but pretty much this is gonna be hidden inside the panel when it's actually
working and no one will ever notice so what I did was the side that was broken I added
that little bead and then I also added on the side that wasn't broken just to reinforce that
side in case that one breaks in the future so this one should hold up pretty well for
the next however long I have this car I mean it held up for thirteen years already and it
broke recently I just kind of been leaving it down there because I don't really open
my trunk much but I'm gonna put it all back together and get this thing back on the cuff
so I got it in there I had to find all the holes where that spring kind of clips into it and then
I just stuck that thing through one unintended consequence of adding that little extra spacer
thing was that now the spring doesn't have enough clearance and it's kind of putting a
lot of pressure so it's pushing that it's pushing that slap all the way to that one
side to the right side of the screen and so what imma have to do is put some of those spacers back
on the other side to relieve the pressure and then keep that flap in the center so it doesn't
push all the way over due to the spring so that should fix it oh yeah MacGyver at work I got it
in there so I've got I had to use two of those little spaces but basically moved that thing to
the center now that spring is under really high pressure and high tension I don't know
how long it's gonna last but hopefully it lasts and I'll see how it holds up right now that tab
right here is it's got some pressure on it and it's pushing it that way there is a little bit
of reinforcement on it but I don't know how long that's gonna last but oh well at least it works
now struggling to get that tape off and then I realize this brake cleaner or some good stuff
man I just sprayed it on there he spray it lightly cuz it's tough some high pressure so it comes out
really fast and evaporates professor I just kind of drizzled it slowly I barely tapped the cap and
I let it soak in for a couple minutes and once I soaked once that soaked in that 3m tape just
basically melts into a bunch of little crumbs so and then you just wipe it off with the paper towel
and it's pretty good it evaporates really fast so you got to kind of recode it every once in a
while but I pretty much got everything cleaned up nicely now I'm going to wipe it down with
some grease and wax cleaner and put some 3m tape on it and then put it back on the car so earlier
when I broke these clips for that side mount thing I looked it up and freaking this panel
right here comes with those clips they don't even sell these things separately but even if
they did I wouldn't even bother ordering because that it wouldn't be worth the shipping just to
try to get two or three of these it's an oddball clip it's basically like this thing fits on this
side neck snaps into there and there's like a ball joint that it goes inside here right and a
couple of them they got they just got brittle and broke two of them so I only got two good
working ones so what I'm going to do a guy for some [ __ ] right now I have some of these that
are the engine clips that keep on breaking and I replace them so the center's are still there they
were my bag of clips that I have here keep all my various clips in here and I have this other clip
which is like the drum at the trunk panel clips I have a bunch of these laying around because
this is a common clip so either one of those I'm gonna try MacGyver using that whatever is left of
this side and see if it works the Guyver strikes again so what I ended up doing was I had to clip
the end of this off of it right there to get the little stem that was stuck inside and I use that
the panel clip the center of the male side of that panel clip and it fits perfectly into there
and it actually holds in there and then now it goes right into there and it fits perfectly so
I'm gonna have one original clip that has a ball joint that clips in and I'm gonna have
this other one and I'll show you on the car in a sec it's over here so I'm gonna have to do
is basically put this into the hole right just the back to the white side of it and then the
black side mouth to put on the panel and then when I go into there it just snaps right in and
it opps gonna be doing most of the work the bottom is just as a guide so it doesn't pop
out basically gonna be a guide for that for the clip to stay in so that should work fine
most of its gonna be held on by the 3m tape up here and then a couple pieces down here anyways
when you put that weather stripping in the back you gotta make sure you tuck it underneath the
plastics and underneath the bumper and when you put it in you just kind of tilt it a little bit
then just wedges right into there pretty easily so plastic goes over the rubber so you just tuck
the plastic underneath so I just gotta get that lower panel back together and we're done with
this mod or this fix really maintenance got everything reassembled panel went back in this
thing works good now back to normal operations all the side panels all glued down tape down
everything's holding pretty tightly gas gets all put back in remember this gasket right here tucks
under under this panel and then under into the bumper so you got do that properly or else the
trunk won't close so thanks for tuning it all the way to the end of this episode guys I hope
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