Be careful if you do this.  That fiber-board in the
door panels gets very brittle over time.  If you don't
remove the panel completely and carefully you can
easily break it.

From experience
Mark

--- "Timothy J. Hannink" <hanninkt@IX.NETCOM.COM>
wrote:
> I took off the window crank, popped the clips at the
> top front of the door
> panel, reached behind and screwed the interior
> receptor shell on without
> rotating the speaker assembly.
>
> Tim Hannink
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Garrett Adams
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 13:56
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Remounting door speakers
>
>
> I'll be remounting my stock door speaker shells
> soon. (Using the recently
> discussed Blaupunkt 3.5" speakers mounted inside).
> It looks like the two
> speaker wires need to be hooked up prior to screwing
> the exterior faceplate
> into the interior receptor shell. Since it takes a
> number of turns to cinch
> up the unit wouldn't that put too many excess twist
> turns into the speaker
> wires which would also be revolving?  My plan is to
> manually counter turn
> the wire leads prior to attachment and hope that
> will sufficiently cancel
> out all or most of the final mounting rotation
> turns. Am I worrying too
> much?  We anal retentive types just never seem to
> know. :-)
>
> Garrett Adams
> 83.5 Adventurewagen GL
> Stockton, California
>

=====
Mark

87 Westfalia Gl
84 Scirocco 8v

http://student.fortlewis.edu/~mwmages/

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