You can buy spacers from a place called Autotech.  They're about .75", are
properly milled & come with the longer screw you'll need.  They're a durable
enough plastic/composite, but they aren't metal, so if your window gets
stuck, don't haul on it extremely hard or you risk partially stripping the
splines on the handle side.  Even then you could still use it by attaching
it on the handle side with epoxy.

They're website is http://www.autotech.com and the price sheet you want is
http://www.autotech.com/price/price0401.pdf.  They're called "Zender Window
Crank Spacers" for $19.00.

David Jaffe
'86 Syncro (soon to be I-4)

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Bret Berger
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:14 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
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