Removing the front bumper has motivated me to do some deeper cleaning.
While I have the bumper off I'm going to concours level clean everything from the firewall forward. I will also replace any rubber that looks suspect. The car has about 36,000 miles on it but is 22 years old...
Anyway, in digging into the front wheel well I needed to remove the AC receiver/dryer in order to clean behind it. Just pulling it away revealed tons of gravel and dirt, not to mention ancient cosmoline I want to remove.
I figured out how to remove it: Unscrew the screw for it's bracket visible below it and then loosen the two screw style hose clamps. Once you do this you can slide the dryer down and off, revealing the bracket and it's upper most screw.
This is where the problem lies: I also removed that screw, wanting to remove the bracket for cleaning.
As soon as I did one of these fell out of the car:
The hole the screw went through is visible in the top of the picture below:
How the hell am I going to get that nut thingy back in there? There is no obvious access to the otherside of that sheet metal!
This seems very wonky. I can't find any pictures or diagrams in the forums or parts diagrams that help.
Does anyone have a reference or pictures?
Are all 911s with AC systems like this?