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Date:         Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:45:46 -0700
Reply-To:     Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      '91 Westy Tailgate Struts
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Got these today from BusDepot...2 rights ($45.00 to my door). They hold up my gate nicely and it is quite easy to put down and up. Stays put at every position I stopped it at until less than a foot open. The gate has a Yakima roof bike rack on it, with fork mount on top bar and small rear-tire-gutter+clip on the bottom bar. Removing circlips from the strut-ends to remove them from the hatch, with a small flat blade screw driver, then prying the wide circlip (on the gate end)up with the s-driver and the old units popped off. Reverse order for installation of new struts was easy. Entire process took 10 minutes. Just a note: the "old" ones are obviously OE and the right one (more highly charged) was almost impossible to compress when off the gate, just as the new rights were. The left was quite a bit easier to compress and so both are probably not drastically different from their stock condition. With the added weight of the rack I have needed to do something. When I have put the bike on the gate, if it stays open I'll let you know ;>).By the way, I held the gate open with one of those expanding windshield snow scrapers. Bob Stevens '91 Westy

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