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Subject:WTB: cheap running vanagon
From:Jason Willenbrock
Date:Thu, 11 May 2006 18:03:08 -0400

hey all,
looking for a running but otherwise any condition van in western MT.  please
pmail me with any ideas.  needed as a simple delivery vehicle for general
around town deliveries.  I am in Missoula.  looking to only spend a few
hindred bucks.
thanks
jason

>From: neil <goofymuso@YAHOO.CA>
>Reply-To: neil <goofymuso@YAHOO.CA>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: '82 sliding door lock is loose
>Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 17:48:17 -0400
>
>Short of duct taping the black knob in postion, ;^)
>you will have to remove panel to get at things. Having
>said as much, the black knob on mine slides quite
>easily, but doesn't lock itself..... yet.
>
>Neil.
>
>
>--- Jonathan Poole <jfpoolio@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > The lock on my '82 became very loose recently.  By
> > loose I mean that you
> > feel almost no resistance when locking or unlocking
> > it with the key and the
> > little black knob on the inside likewise displays
> > very little resistance in
> > its movement.  The locking mechanism is so loose
> > that the black knob sags on
> > the inside and seems like it would lock if I hit a
> > big bump.  Looseness
> > aside the lock funcions correctly but I worry that
> > something is so loose
> > that it will vibrate into the door cavity and
> > possibly be lost.  Are any of
> > you familiar with these symptoms?  Is there a way to
> > fix this without
> > removing the door panel?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jonathan Poole
> > '82 AC Westy
> >
>
>
>Neil Nicholson.
>1981 air cooled Westfalia.
>Cheap-o web site:
>
>http://www.members.shaw.ca/tubanick/welcomewesty.html
>
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