Well, the handle mystery deepens. Joel sent me an ETKA printout showing that my 84 should not have a handle there. "Possibly put on by the PO," he mused. Had to be mounted to the cardboard, was the theory, because the door should not have a place to mount it. But it does, and it's the stock handle that Jake, I believe it was, posted a link to a picture of yesterday. I took the inner door cover off to adjust the bowden thingy and in the process, found that the handle is mounted to a square boss that is bolted to the door metal. So the ETKA is wrong, simply put. Sudhir wondered if maybe that handle is there to aid in closing the door. Since the door's final motion in closing is to move inward, and we want the rear end of the door to come in far enough that the latch catches, the handle, it turns out does exactly that. I had previously been closing the door by sliding it forward with so much force that momentum caused it to bang into place. But when inside, the handle can be used to tug the door inward for the final latch. When outside, putting inward pressure on the rear of the door aids the latching process, too. The "thump" made when the door goes into its final latched position is still louder than I'd like in an early morning campground, to be polite, even with sound damping material applied to the door's skin inside, but using the handle or pushing on the door help a lot. -- 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 9:32 AM neil wrote: |
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