Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Mods to the 308

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

Hi Rui!  Thanks for the note.

On the 308, it isn't too hard to get to everything. 
Then again, I haven't had to do it for years - and my
memory fails. I may have just had stars in my eyes.

I have one of those screwdrivers with a long flexible
goose-neck on it.  It has screwdriver bits but also a
1/4" drive socket bit.  I could put metric sockets on
my flexible driver and reach everything but could
NEVER get in there with wrenches/spanners.

rick

--- Rui Gigante <rui.gigante [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> Good point, Rick. Today I've removed the rear lamps
> from my 328. The
> signal lights were easy. The brake lights were a
> completely different
> matter. I don't know if it is the same on the 308
> (probably is) but it
> is close to impossible to get at the 7mm hex nuts
> !!!!
> There is a structural part of the car that gets in
> the way, and the
> only way I can think of is removing the rivets were
> the covers (with
> the lamp) attach.
> That makes for 12 rivets to drill, remove and then
> replace just to get
> at the 7mm hex nuts. Nuts is the right word, I guess
> .....
> 
> 
> On Jan 25, 2008 1:16 PM, Rick Lindsay
> <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Bob, et al.,
> >
> > I have found, as Bob has pointed out, that Ferrari
> > sometimes chooses the most complex and arcane
> > solutions to common automotive engineering
> problems.
> > And these are not performance solutions, just
> > awkwardly complex solutions.  Perhaps the
> designers
> > didn't subscribe to automotive engineering
> journals?
> >
> > --- Rick Lindsay <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > --- "robert_h_bowser [at] juno.com"
> > > <robert_h_bowser [at] juno.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I know this is heresy, but I've done a few
> mods
> > > > over the years to my 308GTS in order to fix
> some
> > > > rather annoying deficiencies in the old carb
> > > > version of the 308...
> >
> >
>
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