Date:         Sat, 5 Mar 2011 16:44:30 -0800
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Slam! that slider....can you not?
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <AANLkTi=LseH2BXqefjutS=tHDS0pqAf+7z4M1R_9w2WA@mail.gmail.com>
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You need to hear more and newer Vanagon sliders!

My '86 door makes hardly any noise at all.  Fluid Film on all moving parts
and gliding surfaces and Ice Guard stuck on the inside of the track cover to
keep it from being a soundboard.

YMMV.

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

>  OK, a second handle it is, then.  All the hardware on my door is adjusted,
> lubed, and operating properly.  My vanagon, an 84, sounds just like every
> other vanagon I have heard.  I might try to put something in the door and
> the adjacent rear panel, maybe take a bit of the hollow sound out, besides
> the handle.  As in my original post, when you  close it with a push on the
> rear, from outside, it is pretty quiet...so the rear handle inside should
> be
> about the same, and that would be 'appreciated' around many quiet
> campsites,
> I am sure....I tend to be an early riser...
>   Thanks all,  Don Hanson
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
> scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>
> > some are installed vertically ..
> > but horizontal pointing forward is correct.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> >  Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 11:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: Slam! that slider....can you not?
> >
> >
> > At 02:12 PM 3/5/2011, HotelWestfalia wrote:
> >>
> >>> The earlier models had a rear door handle inside, next to the rear
> seat,
> >>> horizontally fitted, as David was telling.  Sometimes it's missing and
> >>> even
> >>>
> >>
> >> Except I wrote vertically by mistake...
> >>
> >> :)
> >> d
> >>
> >
>



--
Jake

1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX - 'The Grey Van'
1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Subie - 'Dixie'

Crescent Beach, BC

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