Rick,

Once or twice in the last 13 years I had my sliding door handle go kaput. Each
time I was able to fix it by re-tensioning the interior cable that runs from the
handle area back to the rear latch. Either yours has lost sufficient tension or
perhaps become dislodged or broken in two.

Garrett Adams
83.5 Adventurewagen GL
Stockton, California

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of james peters
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:26 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Can't get out of my van!

I don't know what happened, all of a sudden I can't get the sliding door
open on my 80 vanagon. The handle doesn't catch anything, just goes all the
way down and that's that. Interior handle doesn't catch either.
I pulled off the interior panel and fiddled around to no avail. Is this a
common thing, and if so is there a obvious fix? Maybe 20 years of slamming
the sliding door takes its toll.
Thanks,

Rick
80 Vana Banana Slug
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