Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 11:13:27 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: [WetWesties] Slam! that slider....can you not?
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to close the sliding door from the inside on a vanagon, you really need a handle on the inside by the aft edge of the door.
Early Westy's had one ..like 82 to perhaps 84 westy ..
the ones with that board like door panel material ( as opposed to the later 'normal' vinyl on cardboard type door panel .
Any small handle will do ..
like a drawer handle.
then you just pull inboard to close it the last bit. No slamming !
if slamming is needed..
something is not lubed well enough.
I have never had a vanagon come into my shop with a properly lubricated sliding door. It's so silly-easy to do too.
Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Courtney Hook
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM ; WetWesties ; Don Hanson
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [WetWesties] Slam! that slider....can you not?
I have tried to do it, but not well. My T2 has a handle at the back end so you can pull it "in" when you slide the door forward, but even that doesn't make for a really quiet closing. :-/
Courtney
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Always be yourself, because the people that matter don't mind,
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----- Original Message -----
From: Don Hanson
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM ; WetWesties
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 8:51 AM
Subject: [WetWesties] Slam! that slider....can you not?
I've always been able to tell when someone nearby is camping in a VW
Vanagon...I hear the distinctly Vanagon sound of the slider being closed.
Has anyone ever found a way to shut the side door of a vanagon quietly?
No problem doing so if you take it slow, from the outside, and push in near
the rear hinge, I know...but from inside, sliding it forcefully ahead seems
to be the only way, and often if you try to minimize the noise of this, it
fails to latch, so you end up making the noise twice.
I think it's sort of rude, slamming my slider, when someone is camped
close or in a tent..or sitting close by...Early mornings in our winter camp,
I sometimes go into to my van to listen to sat radio news at daybreak...and
when its cold, I want the door closed..."Whirrr whirrr whirr.....boom!" I
slam it to make the latch work and everyone within a mile on a cold still
daybreak can be assured of hearing that noise. Then, you have to go back
out for any number of reasons, time after time....Whirrrr....boom!
Any ideas on how to quiet this process down?
Don Hanson
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