If you do washers, the teeth won't grip the splines very well and after a
while you'll be sure to strip the handle.

What I did was to remove the handles and put the attachment ends in a vise.
I then simply (and carefully) bent the handles out about 15 degrees or so.
This gave kind of a wobbly feel to the knobs, so I then bent the knob ends
back about 15 degrees.  Worked fine.

I have Cerwin Vega speakers in front, and was only lacking a bit of
clearance (maybe 1/8").

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bret Berger" <bret@STONEFLYTECH.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:13 AM
Subject: awk! -- speakers sound great but....

> Listmembers,
>
> On the advice of someone's previous post to this list, I purchased a pair
of
> Kenwood KFC-1068S speakers to replace the stock speakers in the doors of
my
> 1982 diesel Westfalia.  (In concert with the installation of an AIWA
> stereo/CD/MP3 player).  I installed everything and put the doors back
> together to discover that the speaker grilles now interfere with the
turning
> of the window handles!  As I sat there pondering this, a vague memory of
> someone else on the list mentioning the interference problem came to me.
I
> now assume the listmember who suggested the Kenwood speakers has power
> windows.
>
> My question then:  Can anyone suggest a work around short of replacing the
> speakers.  One possible solution that came to me is to attach enough
washers
> underneath the screw on the window handle that it would raise it away from
> the speaker grille.  Has anyone else solved this problem?
>
> -bret
>
> 1982 diesel Westfalia
> Saint George, Utah
>