Sliding door is the easy part- just make the rear link longer. The big
problem is getting wheels suited for duals and then finding room for the
inners to fit without hitting stuff.
A more practical  route would probably be to go to wheels/tires like the
syncro 16. quite a bit more floatation due to longer footprint and wider
of course. There exist factory pieces to do this and I'm sure many could
be home- modifed.
Those dually 1 ton pick up trucks that used to be so common  are less
common in the last few years , I think  due to the advent of wider,
stronger single tires.
And- good riddance to the duallies! they were okay going down the
freeways, but anywhere else, they were horrible pigs. Very
un-Vanagon-like. There are times when I'm in a parking lot that I yearn
for a bay window's narrowness (what is it 4-5" less?). Duallies would be
horrible.
(did I only say horrible twice- I was aiming for more than that!)
Al Brase

Bob Stevens wrote:

>Anyone that's considering this, got an idea about the sliding door?
>abortion sounds right. :)
>bob
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>>That offset is the part that has me mathematically wondering if it could be
>>done. To counter the offset I come up with a spacer of almost 2 inches in
>>thickness. I don�t know if that is feasible.
>>jimt
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>>On 1/13/05 11:26 PM, "Robert Cardo" wrote:
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>>>No Problem.
>>>But the wheels are going to have to be severly offset so one will go
>>>into the wheel well the other will butt up to the face of the center of
>>>the inside wheel with the opposite offset.
>>>The only problem I can forsee is the inside wheel rubbng on the control
>>>arm.
>>>It would have to sit in the wheel well pretty deep, or have the outside
>>>wheel sit pretty far outside of it if the offset isn't enough.
>>>I'd like see this aborition myself.
>>>Then a large set of flares would be necessary to cover the outside
>>>rubber.
>>>Interesting concept, but I'm having a hard time imagining it.
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>>>RC
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>>>E-mail message
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>>>Subject: Duals??
>>>An acquaintance is going to modify his 2WD camper to a dual wheel rear
>>>after his brother in law did his and found his off road traction greatly
>>>increased and didn�t sink into soft ground as much.
>>>Has anyone ever tried this on a vanagon? My only dual experience is with
>>>military vehicles and on those the rims were specialized with extreme
>>>offsets so that one could be reversed and bolted through the other and
>>>they butted up against each other.
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>>>jimt
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>>jimt
>>Planned insanity is best.
>>Remember that sanity is optional.
>>http://www.tactical-bus.info (tech info)
>>http://www.westydriver.com
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