Glove box installation help??!!?!?!?!?

[P-DUB]

I have already ruined a glove box trying to re-install it in my car. I purchasd another one, and I am going tho throw it in after work tomorrow (I hope). Does anyone have any words of wisdom to ease installation? There has to be a trick to get one of these in without taking the car apart, or destroying the box itself. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance. By the way, this is a 1970, 914-6 if that makes any difference?

[Jeff Hail]

Originally posted by P-DUB
I have already ruined a glove box trying to re-install it in my car. I purchasd another one, and I am going tho throw it in after work tomorrow (I hope). Does anyone have any words of wisdom to ease installation? There has to be a trick to get one of these in without taking the car apart, or destroying the box itself. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance. By the way, this is a 1970, 914-6 if that makes any difference?

Make sure the strap is off and that will give you more room. If you take it completely off both sides you can reinstall it with a long need nose plyers. Helps if you take the door off but that is a puzzle in itself once the box is in. Keep trying it will fit.

[SirAndy]

if you have everything apart, you need to follow this:

- first, put in the door. slides in from behind. hook up the return springs on each side (this can be tricky) then locate with round plastic screws.

- take the strap and fiddle in the end on the pass. side that hooks into the "slit" (for the lack of a better word).

- grab the box, large side UP, and slide it in from behind. make sure the sides with the space for the door-hinges slide on on the *outside* of the hinges.

- put strap around back of the box. make sure it sits in the channel on the back of the box.

- hook up strap to the bolt under the dash (on the left) and fasten with the 8mm nut.


Andy

[P-DUB]

Thanks guys, I got her smashed in there!

[wcballance]

I feel that it is important to add for those that may read this thread later that 914 glove boxes come in different sizes depending on the dash that is in the car. The early dashes did not have side air vents which allowed for a larger glove box. Be sure to get the right size box for your needs. I learned this the hard way. I removed a glove box from a car with side vents only to find out that it was smaller than the one I had removed from my car without side vents.

Andy's directions are great. I'll add that a hook from a pick & hook set came in handy when I re-attached the return springs. I placed one end of the spring at the top point and pulled it down with the hook so that I could attach it to the bottom point.