Luke,
I cut mine apart with a bandsaw, very carefully, right along the seam
line between the front and back halves.  Four cuts, on each of the four
sides.  Take your time watch your fingers!  (Could probably do the same
job with a hacksaw; much safer albeit slower.)  Inside, the speakers are
"molded" into the front half; used diagonal cutters to remove "web" to
take out old speakers.  I epoxied in new speakers on their mounting
face, and then epoxied the two case halves back together. Turned out
real nice; could also neatly apply black electrical tape along seam line
to hide it, but I didn't need to do that.

Rich
'85 GL Vanagon

-----Original Message-----
From: Luke Sponholz [mailto:lukesponholz@GMAIL.COM] 
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:11 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Rear speaker pods

Hello all -

Happy Friday.

I am installing new separate component speakers all around in my '85 GL.
I
had thought it would be nifty to use the speaker pods in the back to
house
the tweeters, but when I pulled one down yesterday it appears they went
out
of their way to make it an inaccessible self-contained unit.  Anyone
have
any luck getting one of these things open?  Any tricks?

Otherwise I guess I'll just have to improvises my own speaker pods for
the
tweeters - what a shame!

-Luke

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1985 Brown Vanagon GL 4spd "Compost"