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Silverbullet
10-05-2012, 04:06 PM
Found this in my glove box.... Anyone know what it is for?

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o19/AtHomeSoda/Wire.jpg
deloumis
10-05-2012, 04:17 PM
Found this in my glove box.... Anyone know what it is for?

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o19/AtHomeSoda/Wire.jpg

Not sure what its called, torsion bar or spring maybe? Anyways its to hold your glove box lid open. Does your lid stay up by itself?

EDIT: It is called torsion bar
http://store.delorean.com/p-9804-torsion-bar.aspx
Silverbullet
10-05-2012, 04:29 PM
nope.. does not stay open... anybody got a pic of how it gets installed?
jawn101
10-05-2012, 06:27 PM
The thin end goes into the lid and the thicker one gets bolted behind one of the hinges so that the spring is 'loaded' when the lid is closed. You should see the slot in the lid and the scalloped-out hinge, I think it's on the driver's side. From there it should be obvious how to position it.
Rich
10-05-2012, 07:16 PM
nope.. does not stay open... anybody got a pic of how it gets installed?

Post #2 in this thread has 2 photos that might be useful.

http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?4850
Silverbullet
10-05-2012, 07:42 PM
As they say a picture is worth a thousand words, it's all fixed, works great!

I really love this forum.

Craig
micmak
10-05-2012, 07:47 PM
Post #2 in this thread has 2 photos that might be useful.

http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?4850

Yup, it's not rocket sience. pretty simple really......
Shep
10-06-2012, 11:41 AM
Not sure what its called, torsion bar or spring maybe? Anyways its to hold your glove box lid open. Does your lid stay up by itself?

EDIT: It is called torsion bar
http://store.delorean.com/p-9804-torsion-bar.aspxI was wondering what that was! I found the same thing in mine, and couldn't figure out what it was for. I figured the PO stored some non-DeLorean stuff in the glovebox and just forgot about it. Thanks! :thumbup:

Looking at the pictures above and in the aforementioned thread, the left side in the picture above (wide "U") goes in the bottom of the right hinge, and the right side in the picture above (very narrow "U") goes in the top of the left hinge. Basically rotate the above image 180 degrees for proper orientation. Although since both hinges are the same, it may be possible to flip this left-to-right.

Now to bookmark this thread for later!
Silverbullet
10-06-2012, 12:21 PM
Well, the narrow side does not really go into the hinge...there is a hole in the glove box door, that the narrow part shoves into, just before the hinge, so it pretty much has to go in like the pic. It is much better to have the glove box stay open when you are looking for something.

Craig