Sounds like a lot of work to me..
particularly disturbing a perfectly working door in the first place ..
I'd just carry a sliding door on the roof on inside even.  Pretty sure
one'll fit inside many vans.
I put a rear hatch door in the rear of a vanagon for transport no problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Guzyk" <paullist08@GUZYK.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 6:01 AM
Subject: Re: at the wreckers

> for transporting the sliding door;
>
> find someone driving down to one of the upcoming Syncro events in a
> compatible van, swap the sliding door before they leave...put their
> original
> slider in their garage.
>
> Drive van down to Cali, swap door with one of Bens spares (a crappy one)
> for
> the trip home.
>
> Swap again when home in Canada.
>
> Sounds like a lot of work but only 10-15 minutes to replace each sliding
> door.