flyboy1100
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It won't come off.
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Nope, my OCD just didn't like the idea of having it slit lengthwise. It would have driven me nuts thinking it would pop back off.
-Josh
Gotcha. But FYI, it won't pop off.
My Pex is now several years old and haven't even replaced it and it's not even tried to slip off. IMO, the split actually keeps the pex from being to tight. It seems to be the pex actually rotates a hair too everytime the door is opened and closed and it appears to be self rotating so it doesn't wear the same place all the time.
As George suggested, there are other products that work too. Some have even just used electrical tape and wrapped it. That doesn't last forever though.
I took a roll of black tape and wrapped it around the striker, fixed it for now, you have to remember though that those plastic pieces were put on there somehow so I'm wondering if removing the striker would be easy
You can run into problems removing the striker. Like dropping the nut on the other side, then how do you get access to put another one on? I believe it's just a tac welded nut. Break the tac weld, then what? It's been done, but some have had problems. I won't remove mine unless I have not choice but to do so.