Removing Hardware from a Car Body

One of the things that you need to be aware of. It's really easy to overlook a piece of hardware that may be corroded in the car, hidden. And there's also some tips to getting hardware out of the car. I've come across a lot of broken hardware in these cars and it's hard and it's tough to get out. But this face of this has to come out of the car to get lower windshield panel out and to get the Cal side off the car and right down in this corner right down here.

And that's why you are looking at the other camera up there. Cause I want you to see this. It doesn't even look like a screw in here, but it is. And the one of the first things to do, to get hardware out of a car is to come in here and make sure, you can actually get the screwdriver to get all of the bite it can possibly get. And you don't wanna make sure that screwdriver fits, just as well as it can.

And there it's, it's too tight. And if I continue on with this, the first thing that'll happen, is stripped the head off of there. Here's the tip. That's an easy one. Works really well.

Take the acetylene torch. You don't have to go wild on it. You just have to heat the hardware up. Unbelievable. And I know if you've taken very many cars apart your thinking into yourself, dang, I probably broke something off like that myself before.

Actually I know the truth. That was my son that gave me the tip on how to get that out of there. The last thing we'll do is take these screws out. If they're fighting me the same way, the screws are on the backside, we'll approach them all the same. And one more thing to think about, and I'll show you this how I do it.

When they set this panel, they used an adhesive on the back. And if I just warm up that back face with a torch it will be very simple to pull it off. So I'll get the rest of the hardware out. We'll heat that up and take it right off. At hardware really does come out easy, if you just take your time to clean it up use a little heat.

It's a super trick. I love it myself. Again, this part right here. If you try to take it off the car like this you're gonna ruin that part. So it's gonna be requiring heat.

When they put it together, they formed it in. I like to save them. Now I know right up in here in this car and look you can see we're gonna do some work here but right in the post, they have a form in there that has this lock together. And that's what I'm trying to do is warm that up and get it out. You know, this won't work on a car that you're trying to save the paint on but you can use a heat gun.

Take your time and get the same results. It's just a matter of warming it up to the point, where you can start getting the glue to let go. flat chisel I'm on the backside, just barely prying on the lip. See it's loose all the way up to the top up here alright there, where they have that glue in there. You don't want to.

You don't want to take this point and ruin the backside. And, Well, if you can look down in here with me. This really other than being locked up down the back, this really was the point that wouldn't come out of the car.