Seems to me that you could add a couple "spacers" similar to the one between
the handle and the door. Does anyone have experience doing this? I too have
the handles bashing the speaker grills, even though they are low profile. I
cant tell you how many times I have bloodied a knuckle...

Jh

83.5 Westy

 On 1/22/04 1:04 PM, "John Rodgers" <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sam Walters
>> Baltimore, MD
>>
>> 89 Syncro GL
>> 85 Westy Weekender
>> 84 Vanagon, original owner, soon to be retired, just too many problems
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