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• Free Vanagon Parts
  Historical mailing list - Larry Chase
  Sat, 9 Nov 2002 11:00:15 -0700
  ...1 Passenger outside door handle with key = 1 Driver outside door handle with key = 1 Sliding Door outside handle with key = 1 Rear Hatch...
• Re: After market Window Winders ??
  Historical mailing list - Tom Salicos
  Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:33:50 -0700
  ...http://www.gowesty.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=GVW-SPACERKIT&Category_Code=vp-i-p-handles
• Re: rekeying sliding door lock
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:42:12 -0700
  ...on the underside of the handle. at least on an 85 to 91 sliding door outside handle it is. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Taygan...
• wire size for headlight circuit
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Mon, 18 May 1998 08:37:23 -0700
  ...My questions is what gauge wire should I use? I've got some 8 gauge--that should handle it right? I believe it's...
• Grab Handles (no, not those things around your waist!)
  Historical mailing list - Roy O.
  Fri, 7 May 1999 09:24:47 -0500
  Thanks to all who responded to my query regarding grab handles. The gods must love to make fools of us mortals because just the...
• front heater/ door handles
  Historical mailing list - Tracy Bonin
  Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:11:35 -0800
  ...But I dunno how to take off the handles. Does anyone know. I know it's probably a matter of just unscrewing them, but...
• Re: Poptop leak
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:31:50 -0500
  ...Push the loosened handle towards the sky,then retighten, for a tighter closing. This ,however, will make the squeezing of the handle more difficult...
• Need table and handles
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 21 Jul 1995 12:23:30 -0400
  ...the primary table and pedital, about 8 or 10 cabinet handles, and the small stool (with green plaid top. If anyone could help me...
• Sliding Door Handle
  Historical mailing list - Bill Johnson
  Mon, 4 Oct 1999 10:14:45 -0500
  I need the outside handle for my '82. I understand these are a weak point. Mine is completely broken off. I have not taken...
• slider handles?
  Historical mailing list - Brian Jones
  Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:36:54 EDT
  hi volks! does anybody have a used sliding door handle for a 83 vanagon they would be willing to sell? i was just bidding...
• Re: love handles and mud flaps
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Fri, 17 Oct 2003 07:37:35 -0700
  ...So if men tend towards love handles, what similar affliction beleaguers the fairer sex?
• Re: Sliding Door Handle
  Historical mailing list - Ray Hunnam
  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:20:14 +1100
  ...Sliding Door Handle >Listees, > >Instead of the sliding door handle being situated at the normal 9 >o'clock and 3 o'clock position, it...
• Re: Sliding door handles mystery
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:35:08 -0700
  ...SssssssSSSSSHHHHHH-THWUNK!!!! There's no way I can do that with the rear, horizontal, handle. With the door closed so much that the handle...
• Re: Door handles
  Historical mailing list - William Warburton
  Fri, 1 Jul 94 15:34:05 GMT
  ...Anyone have an idea how > > easy it might be to get a replacement door handle? > > Well, if it makes you feel any better, mine...
• Re: sliding door handle
  Historical mailing list - KIM BRENNAN
  Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:12:24 -0400
  ...I > really want to reuse the old tumbler on the new handle so that I can have a > single key for all of the...
• Sliding Door Handle
  Historical mailing list - ThomasD. Hanlon
  Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:15:12 -0800
  Listees, Instead of the sliding door handle being situated at the normal 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock position, it is now drooping...
• plastic cupboard handle + skylight seal installation
  Historical mailing list - Darie Duclos
  Sun, 9 Mar 2003 19:30:21 +0100
  Hi folks, does anyone know where I can find a brown Westy cupboard handle. I broke one of mine on a bitter cold day...
• Re: Sliding door handles mystery
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:23:48 -0700
  Jonathan -- you are completely right about using the handle (or pushing in on the rear of the door) to ease it closed. Helps a...
• Re: Installation of Drivers side Handle From Passenger side?
  Historical mailing list - David Clark
  Wed, 24 Nov 1999 20:41:04 -0000
  ...Installation of Drivers side Handle From Passenger side? > Another good reason port and starboard works well, especially for a Brit. > > Cheers, Tom Neal > > On...
• 86 Exterior Sliding Door Lock Barrel - Voluntary Release
  Historical mailing list - Joe Novak
  Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:07:57 -0700
  ...Does anyone know, short of a new handle purchase, how to refix the barrel in to place? replacement handles are not cheap! Thanks, jvk
• Re: The tale of the escutcheon
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
  Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:54:51 -0700
  ...http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_1152_162/door_handles___outer_sliding_ door_handle.html Cheers, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing...
• Re: Gray (grey) water bladder?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Tue, 29 May 2007 21:37:55 -0700
  ...If I remember correctly, jugs like yours have a plastic > handle and wire rings to connect the handle to lugs molded into the jug...
• Front outside door handle spring
  Historical mailing list - C Snyder
  Fri, 25 Mar 2022 02:39:47 +0000
  Does anyone have or have a picture of the little spring that goes in the front outside door handle? It needs to be for...
• Re: Sliding Door Handle Part?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:13:14 -0800
  ...Well, that and the presence of a 1985-and-later Escutcheon on the stem of the outer handle for the sliding door. -- Mike "Rocket...
• Re: sliding door handle
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:23:47 -0800
  Tim, could be that the retaining screw (inside door, on handle latch mechanism) is loose. Drop of loctite helps keep it in it place...
• Re: extra door handle, WHY???
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
  Mon, 14 Sep 1998 19:37:00 -0700
  ...You can slide the door closed gently, and use the rear handle to latch the door by pulling strongly inward. The later ones close...
• Re: Sliding Door for '84-85
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Sat, 2 May 2015 09:24:49 -0700
  ...Fred's said the handle on the van was cracked, or something, and the longer handles weren't available. Nice to have the longer...
• '80-'84 vanagon Slider doorhandles NLA... Re: WTB: Outside handle for '81 Slidin
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:39:52 EST
  ...but using a 85-91 handle on a 80-84 makes the door alot harder to open since its shorter and you dont get...
• NEED outside sliding door handle
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:02:50 -0500
  My '87's handle broke off halfway down one frigid morning. The stub is a mite difficult for the kids to use, plus it...
• needed: slding door hanlde for 84' vanagon
  Historical mailing list - UTORInfoCommons
  Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:29:14 -0400
  Does anyone have a sliding door handle that they would like to sell for a 1984 Vanagon (Westfalia). My friend's extrernal sliding door...
• tryin again for door latch handles
  Historical mailing list - Melissa J. Cullison
  Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:40:41 -0500
  ...All we need now is the interior and exterior handles for the sliding door latch for an 85 vanagon. Any sellers? Please send me...
• Re: Door handles
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Fri, 1 Jul 94 7:44:41 PDT
  ...Anyone have an idea how > easy it might be to get a replacement door handle? > ..and while I'm at it, how easy is...
• Re: Sliding door handles mystery
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:52:13 -0400
  ...Another possibility is that it is a rear-seat s*** handle. Sudhir On 6/15/07, neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > Ok...
• Re: Outside Sliding handle Confusion
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:33:59 -0700
  Hey there, The dealer is correct in that there are four pieces between the handle and the securing screw. It looks like you have...
• Camping for first time
  Historical mailing list - Craig Standley
  Mon, 15 Jun 1998 12:42:05 -0700
  ...the slider door handle broke off. Is this easily fixed? The latch still works fine, and the inside handle is still working. It looks...
• BROKEN SLIDING DOOR HANDLE ON '81
  Historical mailing list - Steve Sandlin
  Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:25:32 -0600
  <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV> <P>The plug can be interchanged from the broken handle to the replacement handle, but it is a...
• Steve's Lock Shop
  Historical mailing list - Cooper Jonathan
  Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:18:03 -0400
  ...After several emails back and forth, I pulled the handles off and sent them all together with my best key to Steve Sandlin. In...
• Re: Can't get out of my van!
  Historical mailing list - Garrett Adams
  Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:46:16 -0700
  Rick, Once or twice in the last 13 years I had my sliding door handle go kaput. Each time I was able to fix...
• I need a sunroof crank
  Historical mailing list - Larry Carter
  Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:09:13 -0800
  ...I went to the nearest VW wrecker, and found a golf sunroof handle, which had the detent ball and spring, but the handle is...
• Re: FS: NOS front door, sliding door, rear hatch, & ignition lock cylinder
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:37:50 -0500
  Gee Ben , I didn't even get a chance to ask what year the sliding door handles were for ---- I think the 86 and...
• Help - 84 Westy inside sliding door handle screw
  Historical mailing list - Brian Isherwood
  Fri, 17 Nov 1995 13:44:28 +0000
  I lost the screw which holds the interior handle for the sliding door on. I will just go to the hardware store to buy...
• Re: Brown Window Handles??
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:57:59 -0400
  If they aren't available anymore, try handles from a VW Fox. I took the ones off my 88 Fox Wagon and they fit...
• Re: closing slider quietly
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:26:29 -0700
  ...Does not have the rear > >>>> handle nor the mounting boss. > >>>> > >>>> I think it’s safe to say the rear handle was dropped when the...
• Re: removing the window crank and side panel
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:24:30 -0600
  Tim, the handle on my 88 GL is held in place with a single screw opposite the crank handle end. The screw is under...
• Re: Eurovan e-brake boot (picture)
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 7 Nov 2003 12:43:48 -0800
  ...Did the same for my 1/2" ratchet drive, nicer to handle especially on cold days. Alistair -- '82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in...
• Re: Locks, Keys Refurbed by Steve Sandlin
  Historical mailing list - Van O Rama
  Sun, 28 Jan 2018 18:40:37 -0800
  ...When I asked, Steve offered > to send me loaner handles for the few days it would take to send him my > handles, let him...
• Re: sliding door... please help
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 5 Dec 2016 01:30:35 +0000
  I have the correct interior pull handle, also a couple of full sets of later model sliding door hardware if anyone is interested. Even...
• Re: Starting problem
  Historical mailing list - Robin Oomkes
  Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:22:35 +0100
  My own 2 diesel Vanagons, plus any other Vanagon diesel I've driven, really needed the cold start handle - it will start eventually without...
• slip sliding parking brake grip - A poetic pictorial essay
  Historical mailing list - Bret Berger
  Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:41:27 -0600
  ...Unfortunately, the grip on the handle kept coming off when the handle was pulled agressively. Tonight I tapped and screwed that sucker. Check out...
• battery removal
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:53:53 -0800
  ...There are no visible handles or handle notches. there isn't much room on any of the sides. Maybe enough for fingers, but the...
• Re: How do I paint my Door Handles?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 10 May 2001 13:07:28 -0500
  ...I'd like to re-paint the badly faded door handles and sideview
• Re: adding an assist handle to the driver's side
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Mon, 7 Sep 2015 08:58:44 -1000
  ...Stephen mobile > On Sep 7, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Mark McCulley <markmcculley@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > I have an assist handle that is identical...
• Re: Need sliding door handle for '82 (outside)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:32:02 EST
  ...The rear passenger can push the door > almost closed at the front, then pull in on the handle to good > mechanical advantage. > > You can...
• Re: closing slider quietly
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Sat, 1 Aug 2020 12:27:55 -0700
  I have several vanagons and none of them has a handle at the rear of the sliding door, I never saw one in a...
• Re: Sliding door handles mystery
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Poole
  Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:15:25 -0400
  In my experience the rear handle works great in it's stock (I think?) horizontal orientation. The way that I use it is to...
• Re: changing the lock on outside door handle-easy, hard, or impossible?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:08:21 EST
  ...Open the door, remove the screw, remove the handle. Take the key and handle to a locksmith and he'll set the lock in...
• Re: Where to get ignition key?
  Historical mailing list - mike
  Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:15:47 -0700
  ...Remove that screw and the outside handle can > then move forward and come out. You may have to clean up the tines just > to...
• Re: slider handle
  Historical mailing list - Steve Sandlin
  Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:37:00 -0600
  I've been asked about the lock-tite on the slider handle. I only use it to keep the small set screw in place...
• Repainting door handle
  Historical mailing list - Garrett Adams
  Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:22:15 -0800
  What's the best (most lasting) procedure in repainting the exterior door handles? I can live with the paint slowing wearing away but my...
• Re; Westy door speakers
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:37:46 -0500
  ...The new grill's just barely touch the dash, and for the window crank clearance I added one small washer under the handle where...