RE: [Chrysler300] Trim Removal Help Needed

["Krikhaar, Alex" <akrikhaar@xxxx>]

A word of caution - I recently installed a new 300F trunkhandle using the
tinnerman nuts that came from the old handle. Before I knew it I had both
the nut and the potmetal stud from the handle in my hand. The nut easily
cuts into the (very) soft potmetal, so be careful with the pressure you use
screwing it on. (P.S.: rather than having to buy a new handle I drilled a
small hole in the short piece of the stud that remained on the handle, and
used a regular screw and washer to fasten it to the body...not exactly ready
for the concours judges, but I had to save my money for the $$$ steering
wheel restoration).

Alex Krikhaar 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Greske [mailto:kurt_greske@xxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 6:14 PM
To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Trim Removal Help Needed


Hi Joe,

I don't have a '57 Chrysler but similar parts on my '60 New Yorker
and '58 Plymouth are held by tinnerman nuts. They are just sheet metal nuts
with a fast spiral self-cutting thread. They fit a 3/8 inch nut driver and
you just unscrew them like regular nuts. Look closely at them before you
accidentally twist one off though lest it be something else that I haven't
seen. The diecast trim parts ( "Potmetal" seems so crude for a Chrysler
product! Like the clowns who used to call 300 letter cars "brutes" -- ugh!!
;o) just have a diecast stud on them that the tinnerman nut screws on to.
Since you say that this is only reached through a hole in the interior
panel, I would assume that it was the same thing though. )

Kurt

Kurt Greske ( kurt_greske@xxxx )


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