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Do-Luck rear floor-board strut

Materials Needed

Installation instructions

1. remove the door sills

2. detach the front seat belts' anchoring from the sills

3. remove the front seats

4. remove the rear seat

5. remove the round sticker covering the rear hole in the sill on both sides

6. cut the carpet to allow bar to poke through (I made an X)

7. separate the bar into two pieces

8. feed each bar through the respective carpet hole

9. reattach the two ends and adjust to minimum length

10. hope the bar fits

11. lower the bar into place and bolt it to the frame

12. put car back together

Possible Problems

My bar was too wide.  Or perhaps my car was too narrow.  The bar could not be pushed all the way down.  There were ledges on both sides that the bar would not slide past.  I had to dremel away the ledges and form crude ramps that I could push the bar past.  It took a while.

Dremeling

Here the arrows pointing down point to the bolt holes and the arrow pointing up points to part of the the ledge that I had to concentrate my dremeling.  Towards the front one can view the type of black round sticker that is covering the rear bolt hole.

Installed

Results

The car still feels "noodley" with the top off.  The bar might have helped somewhat but that could be in my head.  I need to do some direct comparisons with another '97 targa.

last modified on Saturday, January 19, 2008