Regards, the crank handle clearance of the speaker screen, I have heard
that the Ford Taurus handles will fit and work very well to provide
necessary clearance.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

sam.cooks wrote:

> the stock speakers handle about 10-15 watts max
>
> most radio CD players, etc. today crank out far more than this
>
> rather basic, not the highend speakers Circuit City, Best Buy, Radio
> Shack will handle 40 or more W and produce a better sound with the stock
> wiring - at least that is my experience running Kenwoods in two
> different vanagons.   I have had to fix the wiring in the driver side
> door on the Westy.
>
> the real problem is getting rid of the "collision" between the window
> crank arm and the speaker grill on the add-on speakers most of which
> stick out farther than the stock speakers.
>
> the arms scrape the Kenwoods a little and I just live with it.  Others
> have made mods to their crank arms and chosen different, though more
> expensive, IIRC, speakers to solve this.  lots about this in the
> archives.
>
> Sam
>
>
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> Baltimore, MD
>
> 89 Syncro GL
> 85 Westy Weekender
> 84 Vanagon, original owner, soon to be retired, just too many problems
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