So could you explain proper lubrication to me pls.

Cheers,
Doug

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
ScottDaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

>
>
> to close the sliding door from the inside on a vanagon, you really need a
> handle on the inside by the aft edge of the door.
> Early Westy's had one ..like 82 to perhaps 84 westy ..
> the ones with that board like door panel material ( as opposed to the later
> 'normal' vinyl on cardboard type door panel .
> Any small handle will do ..
> like a drawer handle.
> then you just pull inboard to close it the last bit. No slamming !
> if slamming is needed..
> something is not lubed well enough.
> I have never had a vanagon come into my shop with a properly lubricated
> sliding door. It's so silly-easy to do too.
>
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Courtney Hook
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM ; WetWesties ; Don Hanson
> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 9:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [WetWesties] Slam! that slider....can you not?
>
> I have tried to do it, but not well. My T2 has a handle at the back end so
> you can pull it "in" when you slide the door forward, but even that doesn't
> make for a really quiet closing. :-/
> Courtney
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Don Hanson
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM ; WetWesties
> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 8:51 AM
> Subject: [WetWesties] Slam! that slider....can you not?
>
> I've always been able to tell when someone nearby is camping in a VW
> Vanagon...I hear the distinctly Vanagon sound of the slider being closed.
>
> Has anyone ever found a way to shut the side door of a vanagon quietly?
> No problem doing so if you take it slow, from the outside, and push in near
> the rear hinge, I know...but from inside, sliding it forcefully ahead seems
> to be the only way, and often if you try to minimize the noise of this, it
> fails to latch, so you end up making the noise twice.
>
> I think it's sort of rude, slamming my slider, when someone is camped
> close or in a tent..or sitting close by...Early mornings in our winter
> camp,
> I sometimes go into to my van to listen to sat radio news at daybreak...and
> when its cold, I want the door closed..."Whirrr whirrr whirr.....boom!" I
> slam it to make the latch work and everyone within a mile on a cold still
> daybreak can be assured of hearing that noise. Then, you have to go back
> out for any number of reasons, time after time....Whirrrr....boom!
>
> Any ideas on how to quiet this process down?
>
> Don Hanson
>
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