S1 Rear Clam Removal?

[Jonathan E]

I'm planning on a few jobs over the winter and will need to remove the rear clamshell on my 99 S1.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good guide, the one on seloc is pretty poor tbh and I'm looking for something a little more "informed" is there a pictorial guide upon the interweb??. Any tips,tricks or advice on the subject are very welcome.

Tia

Jon

[surrealillusions]

This one any good or is this one that you already looked at and thought it wasnt any good?

 

http://wiki.seloc.org/a/Remove_the_rear_clamshell

[Jonathan E]

Thats the one, it does give all the info required but references to "black plastic things" don't help and it appears to have been written by someone on speed

I'm probably being a bit picky but a little punctuation would be helpful

Just wondered if there was a better guide out there.

[surrealillusions]

references to "black plastic things" don't help

 

Thats a highyl technical term and is used by most technicians with so many qualifications that they dont have any wallpaper..just lots of certificates

 

Anyway, found this afte a quick search on Goooooogle:

 

http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/f101/there-post-removing-rear-clam-51971/

[Jonathan E]

Thanks.

Thats for an S2 though,are there many differences I wonder

[surrealillusions]

D'oh...didnt realise. It came up for a search for "elise s1 rear clam removal" or something

 

No idea how similiar/different the S2's are to the S1's...i suppose theres more room for hairdryers and stuff like that in the boot.

[JonS]

Afraid I had the same issue, so I had to make my own and suck it and see.

 

NB That SELOC one has NOTHING on my front clam blog

[graeme_laslett]

I've just taken the rear clam off my S1 following the picture from the Service Manual (and a few tips off Martin) and even then there were some differences between the car and the service manual.

 

Just take a steady approach to it and you'll be fine

 

HTH

 

G

[steve-n]

if you need a hand let me know. I'll be intrested to find out what needs to be done for removal.

[Jonathan E]

Thanks everyone, looks like I'll have to write a blog like JonS(very impressive), Steve, your more than welcome but my brother has kindly cleared his garage for my use this winter so won't be doing this in Shrewsbury. I'll attempt a write up and can assure those interested that it will be slightly better than the seloc one.

Cheers

[steve-n]

happy to travel, as i may be getting mine off soon for a respray....... along with the front

[Martin R]

Removing an S1 rear clam is easy compared to a short tail S2. However removing an S2 front clam is easy compared to a S1 Swings and roundabouts i suppose. Once you have replaced the rusty fixings with S/S ones and a bit of grease on the threads its relatively easy. Having the right tools helps. Jon if its not to far away and you need a hand PM me.

[JonS]

...removing an S2 front clam is easy...

 

... of course that depends on who is doing the removing!

[kayj_prod]

Removing an S1 rear clam is easy compared to a short tail S2. However removing an S2 front clam is easy compared to a S1 8<

 

I'm just thinking about removing my rear clam to check for any further damage after The Reversing Incident the other weekend. I'm glad to read the S1 rear is easy if the S1 front is hard.

[kayj_prod]

Hi Jonathan

How did you get on removing your rear clam last year?

I need to take mine off in October in preparation for the repair work it needs (chose to run it through the summer rather than taking it off the road for weeks) and I thought you might have some pointers.

The only part that is confusing me at the moment is the fuel filler. To me, it looks like the screws under the filler cap have to be removed and then the clam slid over the filler neck perhaps?