Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:14:26 -0700
Reply-To: RICHARD KOERNER <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From: RICHARD KOERNER <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: Vent windows past 90 degrees -- nope
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Me, too, on my 85 2wd GL. I have made the mistake far too many times of resting my left hand in the open vent window turned past 90 degrees, enjoying the incoming air on my torso, but then sure enough at 50 MPH the vent slams shut, slamming my hand along with it! OUCH!!
Rich
85 GL
San Diego
--- On Wed, 7/15/09, Brendan Slevin <totorovan@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
From: Brendan Slevin <totorovan@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Vent windows past 90 degrees -- nope
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 4:06 PM
Mine go as far past 90 as I want them to. On both the 87 syncro and 84
2wd. Hmmm. Seems odd to have a stop there, the point IMO is to scoop tons
of air and hurl it into the van. They stay open way past 90 degrees until I
hit about 45-50 MPH.
Brendan
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:38 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> I'm sorry to say that I just spent an unimproving hour and a half
> establishing that it is in practical terms impossible to remove the
> bump on the lower pivot that prevents it opening more than 90
> degrees. Unless you're willing to make a hole in the outer door
> skin. I seriously believe that they must have installed the
> quarter-windows before the outer skin went on the door. With a
> phillips-head screw. Facing out. With a piece of sheet metal 3/16"
> outside it, which I think is the upper fold of the door skin. And a
> similar piece about the same distance inside, too.
>
> The pivot is clamped by a strip of thick sheet metal with a slot in
> the middle that is half the pivot circumference in length or
> less. This is folded from back to front around the pivot and clamped
> together with a screw that also attaches the assembly to a tab on the
> door. The pivot has a bump on the shaft that runs in the
> slot. There's not enough access to get even a flex-shaft Dremel up
> there to grind down the bump, and it prevents the pivot being removed
> as well as being turned. All right, I lied. I *did* get a
> flex-shaft Dremel up there, by making a slit in the lower moisture
> barrier and passing the shaft up from there. And if I'd been willing
> to spend half an hour trying to make that nib dissapear maybe I could
> have. Five minutes sure didn't do it. Ok, when I get my gumption
> back I'll go in there and walk a worn-out cutoff wheel up and down it
> (there's only about half an inch width of access there between the
> two strips of sheet metal). Maybe. I really really really want to
> open that window so it hurls air at me, 'cause I haven't got air
> conditioning.
>
> It's easy enough to adjust the tension, because you can grasp the
> sides of the screw head with nice sharp needlenose pliers and turn it
> a sixteenth turn at a time or so.
>
> I think this came from the same keep-em-guessing department that did
> some of the cooling hoses...for total frustration with ten cents
> worth of hardware, this has the hoses beat all hollow.
>
> [/rant]
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '89 Po' White Star "Scamp"
>
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