Sting Gray Heel
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Okay, I ran into this problem this weekend as well. I saw a YouTube where a guy said he threaded a shoelace through the eyehole of the door-check (where the bolt goes) and created leverage to pull. That seems like a PITA to me.I figured it out.... no way to pull it out without just a ton of leverage. Couldnt get it out at all with a pair of pliers. The problem is that I must have pulled the door when it was not all the way open, meaning the arm was still mostly in the door. Had to snake another hex bit in there to get it threaded a bit, then opened the door more to get the arm to extend, then when i pushed the door open it came out to where I could finish screwing it in. Going forward I will make sure that the door is at the widest open point before pulling it. I recommend everyone else do the same.
I'm not really following your solution, dwood. Did you actually thread the bolt through the door-check eye hole and into the door frame a bit, then open the door wide (pulling the arm out of the door), and then finish bolting it in? I tried to do that but my door-check was so far in the door that I couldn't even get my fingers between the door jam and the body frame to try to start threading it in by finger. How did you manage to get a hex bolt in there? Maybe yours wasn't as far in as mine? Or am I just misunderstanding?
Any other suggestions/ideas? (I guess I could just skip it and rely on the tether, which I'm used to from my former JK.)
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