

| Subject: | removing rear cabinets: westy/weekender |
| From: | Edward Maglott |
| Date: | Sun, 5 Aug 2001 08:12:44 -0400 |
I have removed the rear (clothes closet) cabinets from an 85 westy and an 86 weekender w/ AC and wanted to pass along what I found. The Bentley manual describes a terrible complicated procedure for removing the cabinet, especially the one with AC. I found a little bit of a shortcut in that the cabinet can be pulled out the front. On the westy, the whole ceiling cabinet can be left up there if you pull the clothes closet out the front. This is one without AC. You dont' have to take out the bed boards up top either. You do however, have to take out the cabinet with the water tank. So if you are not going to take that out anyway, this is not the way to go. On the one with AC, by pulling it out the front you save loosening the AC evaporator, and trying to support it while you maneuver the cabinet into the engine bay and then out. Mine was a weekender, so all I had to do was remove the bench. I was doing that anyway, so it was an easy choice. Might still be preferable to going the Bentley way, especially if you only have 1 person. I did have to remove the ceiling cabinet though. The problem is that it is hard to slide the clothes closet forward because the rear of it can't get past all the AC stuff that runs down the pillar. To lower the upper cabinet, I used 2 ropes running (front to rear) from the rear hatch hinges up to some S hooks I hooked over the edge of the popup opening. These held the cabinet while I was loosening the bolts and stuff. I just added more slack as I went along to lower it down. The AC fans come down with the cabinet. It is quite heavy/awkward. I was careful but still broke both of the plastic mounting things that hold the AC fans' resistors. Will fabricate some metal replacements. Edward
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