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With my full tool tray, my trunk lid became a serious hazard. Here is my solution.

In case anyone is interested, the cylinder is 8-14 inch, 35lb. force, item from Amazon. I also bought the ball studs via Amazon.

I made a dummy bar, experimented with various hole locations, chose this set up seemed to work best. I was going to install one on each side, but one is more than adequate.

The lower bracket was fabricated from 1/4” bar and painted with wrinkle finish paint. This bracket needs to be quite sturdy. Mine shares a mounting with a home fabricated lower antenna mount.
 

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I did a similar thing to my E3 a few years ago...

Mike Goble

Thread 'Shocking development in my trunk...'

The white E3 that sold last week on BaT had a gas shock in the trunk to assist with the opening, It wasn't clear to me whether they also had a torsion bar as well. I decided to replace my remaining torsion bar with two gas struts from the boneyard. A little picking and a little pulling got me some 20" struts with end brackets I needed. It works like a trained pig...

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With my full tool tray, my trunk lid became a serious hazard. Here is my solution.

In case anyone is interested, the cylinder is 8-14 inch, 35lb. force, item from Amazon. I also bought the ball studs via Amazon.

I made a dummy bar, experimented with various hole locations, chose this set up seemed to work best. I was going to install one on each side, but one is more than adequate.

The lower bracket was fabricated from 1/4” bar and painted with wrinkle finish paint. This bracket needs to be quite sturdy. Mine shares a mounting with a home fabricated lower antenna mount.

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i wonder if your torsion bars are put on correctly. notice on the pic below that the torsion bar that attaches to the support bar is the upper bar (on both sides) and passes behind the bar that goes up to the trunk lid. i have seen pics of this done both ways ... but the winning pic was a certain highly original ceylon car that we know never had the trunk lid removed ... it was done this way.




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i just looked at the pic of your trunk lid and the torsion bars are backwards - this, i believe creates the week spring

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rsporsche said:
i wonder if your torsion bars are put on correctly. notice on the pic below that the torsion bar that attaches to the support bar is the upper bar (on both sides) and passes behind the bar that goes up to the trunk lid. i have seen pics of this done both ways ... but the winning pic was a certain highly original ceylon car that we know never had the trunk lid removed ... it was done this way.




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Well, at least I got the fun of solving a problem. A problem apparently I created.
 
it has been done by many long term coupe owners ... i recently looked into this as i will be installing my trunk lid before too long. a few decades ago, i learned that hoods / trunks had to be put on a certain way or you had to have a prop rod ... i always had a prop rod on my e3, until i figured out the mistake a PO had made.
 
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