Got any tips on installing repro cardboard glovebox liner? '70 Charger

[Coelacanth]

I'm wondering how to finagle my repro cardboard glovebox liner into my Charger--without damaging it. I can get the left-side flap over the fuse block and get it jammed in about halfway but it's fighting me all the way just to get to that point and starting to bend & deform. Got any tips? Slide in from the left or right side, top or bottom or some other trick? Feel free to share how you got yours installed! Thanks guys.

 

[fine69]

I'm wondering how to finagle my repro cardboard glovebox liner into my Charger--without damaging it. I can get the left-side flap over the fuse block and get it jammed in about halfway but it's fighting me all the way just to get to that point and starting to bend & deform. Got any tips? Slide in from the left or right side, top or bottom or some other trick? Feel free to share how you got yours installed! Thanks guys.

It’s been a few years but I recall mine going in quite easily. Can you see what the obstruction is?

 

[kiwigtx]

I'm wondering how to finagle my repro cardboard glovebox liner into my Charger--without damaging it. I can get the left-side flap over the fuse block and get it jammed in about halfway but it's fighting me all the way just to get to that point and starting to bend & deform. Got any tips? Slide in from the left or right side, top or bottom or some other trick? Feel free to share how you got yours installed! Thanks guys.

You do need to carefully crush the back corners....take it easy though - too much and the creases are permanent. Just work away at it slowly.

Sliding the right-hand side in first on the left-hand side of the opening helps....pushing the box to the right.

I have done two that way on '70 GTX and RR.

 

[Kern Dog]

It’s been a few years but I recall mine going in quite easily. Can you see what the obstruction is?

No, it is not easy.
It takes some pushing, twisting and folding a bit. If you get it in place without deforming it at all, you are doing better than me.

 

[R413]

They were put in from the back at the factory. They are too large to easily go in from the front, but many have done it without ruining it.

 

[Coelacanth]

Thanks guys, I'll have another go at the finagling tonight. There's no obstruction, it just feels like it's a quarter-inch too long when I got the flap over the fuse block, got the right side inserted right up to the corners, but the lower left corner still protruded enough that it needed either bending or strong-arming to get it in, and I didn't want to do that without getting some advice.

 

[Bird 426]

Relocate the fuse block a little help?

 

[Coelacanth]

Relocate the fuse block a little help?

That doesn't appear to be the problem; it's the cardboard being a bit too big for the hole.

 

[kiwigtx]

They were put in from the back at the factory.

....and they were likely installed as part of the dash sub-assembly, and that was simply screwed to the windshield frame.

 

[Bird 426]

Guess I will find the answer to this one when I install mine. Hasn't had one since it became a race car.

 

[BDnFL]

I'm wondering how to finagle my repro cardboard glovebox liner into my Charger--without damaging it. I can get the left-side flap over the fuse block and get it jammed in about halfway but it's fighting me all the way just to get to that point and starting to bend & deform. Got any tips? Slide in from the left or right side, top or bottom or some other trick? Feel free to share how you got yours installed! Thanks guys.

Different year, but in my in my 68 I had to notch the corners to get it to fit using glove box from Vintage Air. Still a tight fit but it being plastic you can push it it in without destroying the shape.

 

[Coelacanth]

That might be a good tip to notch the lower left corner because that's what seems to be protruding just a bit once everything else is mostly inserted.