Today, I pulled the door panels off of the coupe to change the lock cylinders and diagnose the floppy remote mirror.
Oddity...the watershields were jute, and had a foil coating on both sides. I have not seen this before. Every A/G body I have had the panels off of had paper watershields, sometimes with jute over them to the interior side. The headscratcher to me is that this is a "T27" base Malibu coupe, not a Classic. Seems odd that they would have used a more costly shield on a base car
Happy accident....about a dozen years ago, I bought a set of Gearwrench ratchet wrenches. Year and a half ago or so, the 10mm ceased to ratchet. We had bought a bunch of the sets from NAPA who had said they were lifetime warranty, so I sent it back to them. Apparently, they had stopped carrying Gearwrench, but replaced it with a similar house brand (Carlyle, I believe). I'm borderline OCD, so it bugged me, but I need it on a daily basis, so I let it slide. When I pulled the door panel off of the driver's door tonight, I was checking for debris in the bottom of the shell, and I was like "ooh, there's a wrench down there" I pulled it out and was like. hey, it's a gearwrench. Yep, it was a 10mm, and after a quick shot of oil, freed right up and works like new. Happy for me, not so great for the guy that lost it, but I figure he was probably the jerk that cut the remote cable on the mirror.
Oddity...the watershields were jute, and had a foil coating on both sides. I have not seen this before. Every A/G body I have had the panels off of had paper watershields, sometimes with jute over them to the interior side. The headscratcher to me is that this is a "T27" base Malibu coupe, not a Classic. Seems odd that they would have used a more costly shield on a base car
Happy accident....about a dozen years ago, I bought a set of Gearwrench ratchet wrenches. Year and a half ago or so, the 10mm ceased to ratchet. We had bought a bunch of the sets from NAPA who had said they were lifetime warranty, so I sent it back to them. Apparently, they had stopped carrying Gearwrench, but replaced it with a similar house brand (Carlyle, I believe). I'm borderline OCD, so it bugged me, but I need it on a daily basis, so I let it slide. When I pulled the door panel off of the driver's door tonight, I was checking for debris in the bottom of the shell, and I was like "ooh, there's a wrench down there" I pulled it out and was like. hey, it's a gearwrench. Yep, it was a 10mm, and after a quick shot of oil, freed right up and works like new. Happy for me, not so great for the guy that lost it, but I figure he was probably the jerk that cut the remote cable on the mirror.
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