D&A Hennessy wrote: > > At 11:10 PM 7/21/02 -0400, Scott Mullin wrote: > >> how do i take the hydro hatch lifts stands out? > > If Roger Twitchell was here he would advise a different solution. If your > struts are worn out, open the hatch, and push against one strut, near the > middle of it. You can put a very slight bend in in, not enough to be > visible, and once it has a slight bend, it will not allow the hatch to fall > down. Try it out..... > > Later > Dave
Well, actually, he is here! ;> Someone has a good memory! You even spelled my name right!!! Yes, just push a little bend into them, just a little. It doesn't take much. My Si's hatch struts have worked well enough that way for, I believe, the nearly four years I've had her. The perfect approach, granted, would be to take off the plastic pieces required to allow full strut mount access to replace them with new ones, but I have no complaint with the "friction lock" approach and I use that hatch a few times a week typically. Roger '85 Si which recently held 4 new 185/60R14 AVS-i's + a 27" road bike with lots of room to spare, should be able to fit 2 bikes in there w/o having the passenger seat folded forward nor the hatch unlatched.
