R34 Skyline How To Remove / Replace Rear Bar In Five Minutes

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Les Lothringer's Approach to Remove / Reinstall Rear Bar on a Nissan R34 Skyline. May be applicable to similar Skyline models.

- Duration: Several minutes one person to remove / reinstall.

- Difficulty Level: Easy - once you know where the hidden attachments are. Refer photos for sequence.

- Special Tools: Plastic Plug Remover - see pix #6.

- Other Tools: Large Phillips Head Screwdriver, 1/4" 10 mm socket, 1/4" Extension Drives, background music of your choice.

- Parts: None, although plastic clips eventually break after a few installations.

- What Can Go Wrong: Hard to go wrong.

- Reference: None used.

Approach:

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Refer the sequence of photos for location of bolts, screws and plastic plugs, to first remove.

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Fitment is the reverse procedure.

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- Les Lothringer's Disclaimer [short Form]: This describes my approach. If you choose to follow it and make a mistake, remember - at all times, it really is your fault, your risk and your cost. If you choose to follow it and get a different outcome, that's because you need to know more than what is described here. If you choose to follow it and something subsequently and in the rich fullness of time goes awry, you bear the consequences, deservedly or otherwise but probably deservedly. Recognize that your car may have been worked on by a previous owner who knew less than you do [scarey!!], who may not have applied good workshop practice or whom may have been a qualified workshop technician operating to unrealistic "industry standard job time" pressures and so took yet to be revealed shortcuts with unfortunate or even dire consequences or perhaps prepared the car for sale under instructions from a previous owner to "keep it cheap mate". If you lack the confidence, ability, manual dexterity, clear eyesight, intelligence, mental clarity, patience, emotional stability, knowledge, focus, correct tools, time and a firm, level under-cover location free of rain, flood, high winds, blizzards, sand storms, ground instabilities, ionizing radiation, blood sucking insects, inadequate lighting, excessive noise, distractions, subterranean volcanic activity, very low flying aircraft, terrorist actions, foreign invasion, etc etc etc, or otherwise believe in the power of prayer to keep you from screwing up in the performance of these tasks or even worse, possess a wife [or wives] or partner [or partners] pestering you to complete the work in what seems to her [them] to be more than a very reasonable affluxion of time, engage someone who does not. No responsibility accepted for srorre, omissions, misguided and unjustified assertions. Every car can be different. Your car may have design defects courtesy of the manufacturer [probably does] or aftermarket manufactured parts applied [quite possibly and made to another engineer's standards or maybe a committee of engineers with the usual interference from cost accountants (I did cost accounting)] or outstanding campaigns issued against it, as yet unapplied or applied incorrectly or components designed / manufactured under no intention of being serviceable [built-in obsolescence]. Torque settings as per Nissan WSM's.