Duster interior door badging… how to remove.

[Kern Dog]

This should be obvious but right now I can’t tell.

The plastic badges on the doors need to come off to sand and paint the frames. I expected to simply have pegs and speed nuts on the back.

The window hardware blocks my sight of the back side.
Yes, I did consult a factory service manual. It does not cover this. I suspected that they may be pressed in but I hesitate to try to pry it off due to the risk of breaking it.

 

[340wedge]

The emblem has two plastic pins on the back that push into the metal upper door frame that go into two barrel nuts. Just use a pry tool and gently pry them off.

 

[Kern Dog]

I will try that and either thank you for the help or curse you if there are nuts on the back side that result in breakage!

 

[413]

Try to tap or hit the pegs from the back so you don't damage the front prying on it.

 

[72bluNblu]

Should just be a couple of these on there

A light prying with a trim tool should do it, provided no one’s put anything different back there in the last 50+ years

 

[Lefty71]

Cant get a mirror in there to confirm??

 

[Kern Dog]

Yay!

Wait…..

Son of a *****….

Not your fault though. The car sat outside for many years so I suspect that corrosion built up on the backside.
Thanks!

 

[Kern Dog]

Cant get a mirror in there to confirm??

I tried. I even had a bright light up in there and could not tell how they were held on. I have some metal badges from earlier cars that are held on with studs and speed nuts.

 

[72bluNblu]

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Yay!

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Wait…..

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Son of a *****….

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Not your fault though. The car sat outside for many years so I suspect that corrosion built up on the backside.
Thanks!

So 50/50? Sounds about right on these old cars.

There’s a handful of them on eBay right now

 

[CFD244]

I wish the postal service wasn't on strike right now....I'd send you a couple of freebees

 

[Coupman35]

This is a good post am also going to take min out and was wondering how they come off wish me luck.