Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:33:47 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: The sliding door's Bowden tube thingy
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I wasn't meaning to be rude Mike, just pointing out the limitations of the
device. VW wasn't happy with its operation so they redesigned it.
Unless you've experienced another early van's door and found it to be
markedly superior, your door may be as good as it's going to get.
On 6/15/07, Mike Rocket J Squirrel Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Not quite the solution I was looking for . . but thanks, anyway?
>
> --
>
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
> On 6/15/2007 12:15 PM Jake de Villiers wrote:
>
> > Replace the 84 with an 86 and up and you get a vastly improved slider
> > with with click and slide locking action too!
> >
> > Quieter, smoother & with shorter throws.
> >
> > Sorry, Mike, my 84 retains the longer throws despite careful adjustment.
> >
> > On 6/15/07, *Mike Rocket J Squirrel Elliott* <camping.elliott@gmail.com
> > <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Have to push on the handle of the 84's sliding door pretty hard to
> get
> > the sliding door to unlatch. It's not that the handle is hard to
> turn,
> > it's not. It's just that the handle turns a lot before the door
> > unlatches.
> >
> > I have the inner cover off the door and see what the Bentley's calls
> the
> > Bowden tube. Turning the cable's adjusting nut so that the outer
> sheath
> > of the tube is all the way forward, and the handle can't unlatch the
> > door at all. Turning it all the way rearward, and the handle can
> unlatch
> > it, but it does require that the handle be pushed nearly all the way
> to
> > its stop before the latch releases and forces the door away from the
> > frame.
> >
> > Is there some other adjustment that can be made to this cable to
> maybe
> > shorten it?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> > 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> > 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> > 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> > KG6RCR
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jake
> > 1984 Vanagon GL
> > 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> > www.crescentbeachguitar.com <http://www.crescentbeachguitar.com>
>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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