I had a injured poptop from a 71 Riviera come off on me on I-77 outside of Charlotte once, same reaction, where the hell is that breeze coming from? In this case it was like a tornado lifting all the trash off the floor and swirling it around! Landed in the median lucky for me and the other drivers. > Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:23:08 -0500 > From: doug.alcock@GMAIL.COM > Subject: Re: Sliding door comes open... > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > Ok -- no Vanagon content --- on my departed 78 Westy -- the door track > had rusted out --- I made a left turn in rush hour trafrfic in > Victoria BC (possibly an oxymoron) and the slider opened, flew off the > track and ended up in the intersection as I wondered where all the > breeze was suddenly coming from. "Wait where the heck is my door?". > Luckily no one ran over it. I was able to grab it and sort off > reinstall it with the aid of a couple of bungies so it wouldn't fall > off again. Had to get a new track welded in. But I'll never forget > that moment. :-) > > Doug > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Marc Perdue <mcperdue@gmail.com> wrote: > > Any of y'all had your sliding door not want to stay shut? The one on > > my '87 Westy is doing just that, even when locked... Not a fun thing, > > driving down the road and have the side door pop open . . . What > > broken mechanical thing should I be looking for and where? I was > > going to start with the latch on the rear edge of the door, but it's > > too cold to be working outside just now, so I'm emailing you all > > instead. > > > > Thanks, > > Marc > > > > > > -- > http://www.dougalcock.com _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/ |
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