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Badge/ emblem removal
- Thread starter chris
- Start date
are they just carefully pried off?
That's how I got mine off, Used a thin stiff but flexible plastic divider from a parts tray, carefully worked it under, found where the pins were and lifted evenly around the piece until it was loose enough to remove. You may need to give 'em a little squirt of penetrant (test in a inconspicuous area first). Take your time and you should be able to remove them with out breaking the pins. Don't try to remove the tiny clip that holds the pins until you've removed the badge / emblem.
Tom j
That's how I got mine off, Used a thin stiff but flexible plastic divider from a parts tray, carefully worked it under, found where the pins were and lifted evenly around the piece until it was loose enough to remove. You may need to give 'em a little squirt of penetrant (test in a inconspicuous area first). Take your time and you should be able to remove them with out breaking the pins. Don't try to remove the tiny clip that holds the pins until you've removed the badge / emblem.
Tom j
tony perrett
Gold Level Sponsor
The letters on the boot lid are held by spring steel clips and these must be removed first from inside the boot. I found these to be very difficult and broke several of the pins in the process.
Ken Ellis
Donation Time
To remove the little spring-steel speed-nut type things, the best bet is to use one (or two) pair of small needle-nose pliers and effectively turn them inside-out, so that the prongs point down towards the sheetmetal, rather than up. This way, minimum force is necessary to lift them off the post. If you're careful/lucky, you can bend them back and re-use them, about 75% of the time. Better to break a clip than a post.
Ken
Ken
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Dr.NO 007
Sunbeam letters
What about putting them back on the car,
all of my front sunbeam letters were loose when I bought the car and easily fell out . it seems like the previous owner used some kind of silicone or adheshive on the inside of the sheetmetal.
Can I buy the metal clips anywhere or will I have to improvise? epoxy ?
Chuck
What about putting them back on the car,
all of my front sunbeam letters were loose when I bought the car and easily fell out . it seems like the previous owner used some kind of silicone or adheshive on the inside of the sheetmetal.
Can I buy the metal clips anywhere or will I have to improvise? epoxy ?
Chuck
mikephillips
Donation Time
Rick at Sunbeam specialties has had them in the past, just look for the letters and scripts in the catalog. As for the ones holding the trunk letters on, you should be able to get those at a hardware store, look for speednuts where the nuts, bolts and assorted hardware is.
