Be careful if you do this. That fiber-board in the door panels gets very brittle over time. If you don't remove the panel completely and carefully you can easily break it. From experience Mark --- "Timothy J. Hannink" <hanninkt@IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote: > I took off the window crank, popped the clips at the > top front of the door > panel, reached behind and screwed the interior > receptor shell on without > rotating the speaker assembly. > > Tim Hannink > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List > [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf > Of Garrett Adams > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 13:56 > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Remounting door speakers > > > I'll be remounting my stock door speaker shells > soon. (Using the recently > discussed Blaupunkt 3.5" speakers mounted inside). > It looks like the two > speaker wires need to be hooked up prior to screwing > the exterior faceplate > into the interior receptor shell. Since it takes a > number of turns to cinch > up the unit wouldn't that put too many excess twist > turns into the speaker > wires which would also be revolving? My plan is to > manually counter turn > the wire leads prior to attachment and hope that > will sufficiently cancel > out all or most of the final mounting rotation > turns. Am I worrying too > much? We anal retentive types just never seem to > know. :-) > > Garrett Adams > 83.5 Adventurewagen GL > Stockton, California > ===== Mark 87 Westfalia Gl 84 Scirocco 8v http://student.fortlewis.edu/~mwmages/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ |
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