33 Coupe Interior 16        8/07/04

What we have here are some arm-rests. These are made by RodDoors and they're made out of ABS plastic. They are 16" long and are hollow as you can see. What you do is make a cut-out for these to fit through and then fasten them to the door panel. These arm-rests have a large lip on the back to use for fastening them down. I need to make a pattern to make the cut-outs because they didn't come with one and the outside is too large to use as one.
 

 

 

For my pattern, I used some thin cardboard and cut a little at a time till I had what I wanted. What I wanted was the size of the inside of the armrest which would be just a little undersize. Now I can draw around my new pattern and make the cut-out.
 

 

 

Here is the arm rest in place and I used my Dremel again to do the cutting which worked very well. You can see some layout lines around it which represents the outside of the arm rest in the position that I wanted. I placed my paper pattern inside these lines and this is where I made my cut-out. The paper pattern that I made was a little small like I had planned but it's better to have it this way than too big. After a little cut-and-fit, the armrest now has about an 1/8" clearance all around it. Why so big? Well you have to have room for material so this is just looking ahead a little. Having an arm rest is nice but how am I going to close my door if I don't have something to hold on too?
 

 

 

I also bought this from RodDoors which is a pull kit for there armrests. What you do is make a cut-out in the armrest and insert the finger-pulls where ever you want them. The metal brackets get fastened to the door and the finger-pulls screw to them securing them in place. The green and white area on the metal brackets are covering some double-sided tape. This tape is to help you line-up the brackets in the right place on your door. What you do is fit the finger-pulls to the armrests, and then screw the finger-pulls to the metal brackets. Let me show you how I lined up the brackets using the tape.
 

 

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