Angle Bracket, Removing

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NOTE:

If angle bracket is to be re-installed, make sure conical washers remain in tolerance compensations in their places.

Always use a lower and upper conical washer.

The conical washers must not be interchanged.

Fig 1: Identifying Roof Rail Angle Bracket Components

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-- Remove the headliner. Refer to HEADLINER, REMOVING AND INSTALLING .

-- Remove the roof rail. Refer to REMOVING .

-- Remove nuts -2-.

-- Remove the angle bracket -1 and 3- together with the tolerance compensations -4 and 5-.

If the angle bracket is to be reinstalled, secure the tolerance compensations to the angle bracket with commercially available adhesive tape.