help with my window cross arm clips

[James_yo7]

these little plastic clips snapped on me and i got new ones, i cannot get them on. As iv tried to show in the picture, the ball on the cross arm thing needs to go into the clip and its nearly impossible. I have been told its hard to do but there must be some trick to it.. I cant get pliers in there so thats out of the question.
I cant take the cross arm out because theres riverets. Iv lubed it, greased it, sprayed it, tried everything. Help please

 

[accentstencil]

Maybe multi grips if you move the window up or down to get a better position with more room to move. Or maybe a lever mode of wood so you won't damage anything.

 

[banga]

i think another guy posted this in a post above, he used a small g clamp and slowly did it uptill it popped in , hey thanks for putting pics in , im at my wits end figuring out how to fix my window , how did you get access to that panel down below ? is it easy to do would my series 1 vt berlina be the same setup?

 

[Drewie]

Think I read on here somewhere that a guy popped the plastic clips in hot water first then attached the arms, I think he said they then popped in easy
not sure if the hot water has any effect on the plastic, I guess when it cools it would be hard again. Might be worth a try.

 

[Troyziee]

he got em in, used vice-grips think he said