Not quite the solution I was looking for . . but thanks, anyway?

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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

On 6/15/2007 12:15 PM Jake de Villiers wrote:

> 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
> <mailto: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
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> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
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