Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 17:50:07 -0700
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: It Baffles Science (Door lock edition)
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i would vote this as the most credible answer for nearly every problem the
vanagon shows symptoms of having
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Evan Mac Donald <evanm@att.net> wrote:
> Science has nothing to do with it. The problem was attitude. Your van had
> it, and did not wish to cooperate. Or, it was feeling lonely and neglected,
> and felt it needed some attention payed to it. Emotionally strained.
>
> My wife knick-named our van "Jealous Mistress", because so often it seems
> to fit.
>
> Just a thought...
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Mike "Rocket J Squirrel"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Sent: Sun, May 9, 2010 4:34:12 PM
> Subject: It Baffles Science (Door lock edition)
>
> last month the driver's door on Mellow Yellow decided to stop locking.
> Key would not turn, button would not depress. I posted a general
> question about this problem here, and Professor Bell provided some handy
> hints for disassembly and inspection. Bentley's, as usual, gives useful
> help, too.
>
> My son works in town at the local lock and safe shop and works on car
> doors all the time. He came over today and we took apart the door and
> pulled the latch . . . and found no problem. There were no issues found
> external to the latch assembly, and the inside of the mechanism didn't
> show any signs of trouble, either. Nothing was visibly out of place or
> broken. Everything moved as it should without any great resistance.
>
> It was a bit gummy inside, a little old black gunk, so we cleaned it
> with mineral spirits and a flux brush, applied silicone lubricant
> liberally, and assembly -- as they say -- was the reverse of disassembly.
>
> Door lock works fine. No problem found. It baffles science.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
--
roger w
From Proverbs:
Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
servant who becomes king ...
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