Friday, after we finished bottom painting the GF's boat, I tossed some brushes and other stuff in the lower trunk and came on home. Got home and the lower trunk wouldn't open. <img src="images/smilies/smiley confused.gif" border="0" alt="" title="confused" class="inlineimg" /> Naturally I took the seat off so I could grab the "emergency cord" on the Champion conversion. <br />
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Lo and behold - the cord had dropped down under the frame and I couldn't get to it by hand. <img src="images/smilies/poof.gif" border="0" alt="" title="poof" class="inlineimg" /> So I "sacrificed" one on the few remaining wire coat hangers in the house to make me a retrieval hook. <br />
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Learned a couple things from this exercise:<br />
a. It doesn't do you any good to have a tool kit with the allen wrench in the lower trunk. Got to have the wrench to get the seat off in an emergency. Now have a spare wrench in the top trunk.<br />
b. To prevent the "emergency cord" from falling in to the frame again I hooked the "finger loop" over one of the studs that's used to secure the seat to the frame.<br />
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Just glad I was home for this exercise.