After removing my spoiler i shut the trunklid(?) and then hit the button only to see it fly up! I thought fo sure that it was going to fly over the car and land on the hood. How do i adjust the spring rate to keep this from happening?

do a search, there are a couple of how to's on fixing that.

quote Originally posted by tjm4fun: do a search, there are a couple of how to's on fixing that.

helpful

Buddycraigg did a nice writeup with photos here:

https://www.fiero.nl/forum/A...040223-2-043677.html

Brad

https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum2/HTML/100003.html

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat & drink beer all day.

One thing that is not made very clear in these threads is that to lessen the torsion springs strength, the pin should be moved toward the firewall, to strengthen the torsion move the pins to a hole farther away from the firewall. It takes all of about 10 minutes to do with a couple of ratchet straps per Buddy method, works perfectly.

I just took mine off. I havn't adjusted it yet bu go to this link and scroll down to buddycraigg's post:

https://www.fiero.nl/forum/A...040223-2-043677.html

FYI: Poor guy had is daily driver Fiero stollen las week.

quote Originally posted by gem1138: FYI: Poor guy had is daily driver Fiero stollen las week.

We have 17,000 members here, everyone please keep your eye out for Buddy's car.

https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/077130.html

quote Originally posted by BtotheB: helpful Brad

sorry I don;t have the time to reinvent the wheel, it's an easy search.

quote Originally posted by DLCLK87GT: After removing my spoiler i shut the trunklid(?) and then hit the button only to see it fly up! I thought fo sure that it was going to fly over the car and land on the hood. How do i adjust the spring rate to keep this from happening?

Dont feel bad it happend to me to. Mine was dring a very windy day and snapped the tennson cables that keep it from flying up and hitting the window. good luck with the ajustment. i dont know how to do them but i will be watching this thread closeley.

[This message has been edited by pontiackid86 (edited 08-19-2009).]

Make use of your newly created catapult....
1. Aim car at someone you don't like.
2. Place rotten tomato on deck lid.
3. Hit trunk popper button.

I removed my deck lid once, and man did it hurt when I got smacked in the face with the decklid.

quote Originally posted by TopNotch: Make use of your newly created catapult.... 1. Aim car at someone you don't like. 2. Place rotten tomato on deck lid. 3. Hit trunk popper button.

Now I don't care who you are, that's funny right there......

[This message has been edited by infinitewill (edited 08-19-2009).]

quote Originally posted by TopNotch: Make use of your newly created catapult.... 1. Aim car at someone you don't like. 2. Place rotten tomato on deck lid. 3. Hit trunk popper button.

Thanks i'll try that, i know just the person! I didn't mention this before but the top of the trunklid has actually seperated from the bottom/underside and the underside now has stress cracks in it. I only opened it a few times as a catapult but apparenlty it was enough. so if you are goign to remove the spoiler, fix the springs FIRST. Live and learn.