

| Subject: | Re: Sliding Door stubborn |
| From: | bueses |
| Date: | Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:11:52 -0600 |
on 8/7/06 12:43 PM, Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott at
camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM wrote:
> On 8/7/2006 8:54 AM bueses wrote:
>> on 8/7/06 8:55 AM, Jim Felder at felder@KNOLOGY.NET wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Mike,
>>>
>>> Get inside the car and pop off the interior panel with a stiff putty
>>> knife wrapped in tape or a screwdriver similarly padded.
>>>
>>
>> Not easy on an 84 Westy w/ the surface mounted fasteners! Plan on having
>> some extra fasteners to replace the ones that break while removing, maybe
>> even an extra panel itself to replace the panel buggered while trying to get
>> it off?
>
> Thanks for that heads-up, Tom! Can anyone else confirm this apparent
> "gotcha" before I start yanking the panel? I've had the two front door
> panels off without any broken parts
The front panels are VW, the rears on a 84 westy are, well, westy
panels-different fasteners-dam that wesfalia!
Tom
(except for a window regulator part
> that I paid Chris at Jordan VW for many weeks ago, no sign of the part
> yet) -- does the side door use different parts?
> --
>
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
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