GTV6 brake booster removal

[Glen w]

In a attempt to try and attract attention and inject some interest or even enthusiasm into this forum and increase participation. I thought I might try and ask our forum members their tips on making a service or repair easier or tools they have made or modified, welded, filed, ground or cut to make service or repair just a little easier.

 Our RHD cars are obviously different to the wider market cars of the world that were LHD. So our cars are different in the ways we approach the servicing or removing and replacing of components.

I will start with the removal of the brake booster for an Alfetta GTV/GTV6, three of the retainers are 13mm nuts that are accessible from the engine compartment the fourth and final 13 mm nut is in the cabin, up and behind the dashboard glove box, To try and reach the forth nut was an issue that required sometimes removing the dash board, a workaround That I will accept was another past owners  idea was to make a hole in the top surface of the glove box directly below the fourth 13mm nut and use a socket on a small extension to undo the nut and lower into said glovebox it can be done in less that 30 seconds. I bought my GTV6 25 years ago I did noticed the hole in the glove box roof and thought nothing of it until I needed to remove brake booster. The hole in top of the glove box roof became obvious the moment I realised the fourth retainer was inside the cabin behind the glovebox.
 

[londrasud]

Thanks for posting those measurements.

The most I've done so far is to grind down the round head of a rivet gun to an oblong to get the rivets which secure the window channels into the doors and roof.