Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:

> hi , I was gonna pull a screw out of a vanagon .. and of 14 or so
> vanagons that are here. they are all hinged battery covers, or are
> missing their screwed-down battery covers.
>
> ( that oughta tell ya something..they're a pain ! )
>
> 18mm long sounds right since 25mm is an inch roughly. and 4mm must be
> what it is.....if yours seem stock and fit well.

They are a perfect fit. I would bet Alistair Bell's house on it.

> threaded inserts is stock, nothing sheet metal related.

D. McNeely wrote, "Well, fact is, only two of the four screws on mine
catch in the sheet metal holes of the box."

So I wuz wondering if maybe some boxes use sheet-metal screws. You have
the luxury (or burden) of having 14 "or so" Vanagons there. I have but
the one. I should join a Bend club for Vanagon fans. But there'd
probably be some annoying guy with a mustache who dropped a huge engine
into his syncro and insisted on showing up for every meeting and showing
off. So to heck with that.

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Rocky J Squirrel