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["Graham Davis" <grahamldavis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:39:58 EST
From: AlfaNeely@domain.elided
Subject: [alfa] Re: alfa-digest V10 #429 - Milano trunk release

In a message dated 11/19/2004 2:57:32 PM Central Standard Time,
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:42:45 -0500
From: "Scott Hutton" <SHutton@domain.elided>
Subject: [alfa] trunk release

Anyone know how to fix broken cable for trunk release for '87 milano?

Scott Hutton
    In the back seat on the driver's side of the car, down in the crack
between the bottom seat cushion and the back should be a nylon string. 
It might
still be connected to the trunk latch and it might open the trunk as
intended.
    However, if the string is gone or the latch screws are loose so that
pulling the normal release and / or the emergency release just moves the
latch
mechanism around, you have a problem.  Remove the license plate and the
plastic
behind it.  Drill a hole somewhere in the center and you should be able
to trip
the latch with a screwdriver.  Of course it is easier to tell where to
drill
the hole with the trunk open and the inner trunk liner removed
    Once the trunk is open, you can use the old cable to drag a new one
through.  You may have to undo the carpets, remove the rear seat, etc. 
It has
been
some years since I owned a Milano.

Ciao,
Russ Neely
Oklahoma City

Note:  Drill motor and bit are not necessary as the access hole is
already there.  After removing the license plate and the two screws
holding it's plastic mount, get your fingers into the black plastic panel
that fills the space between the tail light lenses and pull it toward the
rear; it comes right out.  You'll see the latch access hole in the
center; it's about 3/16" in diameter.  Use a #1 Phillips screwdriver
pointed downward through the hole to access the trunk latch release
lever; push it to your left to pop the trunk.  The cable can be repaired
about two times before it must be replaced.  Rich Hirsch wrote a treatise
on this subject some time ago for i-Saluti, the St. Louis chapter of
AROC.  You should be able to access it on-line.

(Bin there, done that, X2)

Graham L. Davis'89 Milano Verde
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