Need help removing piece on parcel shelf

The nut is accessible from the engine bay. I replaced it with a wingnut...

 

But depending on the car the nut may be under an aluminum heat shield that needs to come off first.

 

just get the biggest crowbar you can find and that'll work just as good

 

Me too..

 

OK... that's just wrong, but it made me laugh.

I remember that precision engineering mantra when I used to work with my brother on elevators during college.

Measure it with a yardstick
Mark it with a chalk
Cut it with a torch!

<grin>
Rick

 

Depending on your car you may also have to remove the rear window

 

And getting to the nuts to remove the heat shield is actually more work than removing the rest of it. I thought about putting in a small access panel or something when I put it back together. I wish I would have!

 

I just got done removing this thing, what a pain. I love the idea of the wing nut upon reassembly, thanks!

 

Good idea on the wing nuts, putting my together right now.

Don't mean to hijack but could someone help with putting back together the pieces. There are two foam pieces that I can't recall where they came from. My car's an '89 328. Where do they go, what's the orientation, and sticky side goes where? the pieces are about 8 inches long by 3 inches wide.

Jeff

 

Sawzall. Works great, very effective. Kind of like this guy's manner of removing the wheel lugs.....
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I got mine loose enuf to use a hacksaw in the car underneath the piece. Shelf was already trashed to being careful to avoid ruining something was not an issue. Put in a new longer metric stud and used a fender washer and wing nut to fasten it when the time came. Just not enuf room and articulation in the engine compartment to get a hand tool (and hand) working through the foil insulation stuff.

 

If you can move the block/spacer from under the panel you should be able to get access to the large washer that holds the panel in place. I pulled up through the whole by twisting it through the hole.. dead easy to straighten out then put a butterfly nut back on to save future problems..

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Doing a thread revival here.

I'm in the process of removing the parcel shelf and I've managed to remove the aluminium heat shield in the engine bay but now I'm stuck trying to remove the center nut holding down the small middle piece. Any tool I put on that nut does not seem to fit. Can anyone confirm which size the bolt is?

 

I am holding mine down with a magnet for years never moved, that one nut is to much work to remove or install.

 

Wait a minute. I'm supposed to put "parcels" up there?

 

You can put tiny parcels.

But does anyone know the size of the nut?

 

I believe that a 8mm x 1.0 thread hex nut.

 

It should be an M6 nut, with the tool being a 10mm wrench. Many have changed it to a winged nut.

 

You know I may have remembered incorrectly. This is my 89 328 and it looks smaller than M6, probably an M5 stud. In that case, the nut on the other side requires an 8mm wrench and you can see that I have replaced it with a winged nut.

Well it's one of the 8mm or 10mm wrench anyway.


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Pretty sure you're right. I didn't face any challenge there... just put the socket on and removed it like the other two on the outer ends.

 

Thanks for the help. I'll continue trying with the 8 mm.

 

You might need a deeper socket; be sure it's engaging the nut.

 

At the moment I was even struggling with the 8 mm spanner. :\