Replace the 84 with an 86 and up and you get a vastly improved slider with
with click and slide locking action too!

Quieter, smoother & with shorter throws.

Sorry, Mike, my 84 retains the longer throws despite careful adjustment.

On 6/15/07, Mike Rocket J Squirrel Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Have to push on the handle of the 84's sliding door pretty hard to get
> the sliding door to unlatch. It's not that the handle is hard to turn,
> it's not. It's just that the handle turns a lot before the door unlatches.
>
> I have the inner cover off the door and see what the Bentley's calls the
> Bowden tube. Turning the cable's adjusting nut so that the outer sheath
> of the tube is all the way forward, and the handle can't unlatch the
> door at all. Turning it all the way rearward, and the handle can unlatch
> it, but it does require that the handle be pushed nearly all the way to
> its stop before the latch releases and forces the door away from the
> frame.
>
> Is there some other adjustment that can be made to this cable to maybe
> shorten it?
>
> --
>
> 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
> KG6RCR
>

--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com