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Subject:Re: Crummy Window Cranks!
From:Doug Alcock
Date:Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:49:43 -0400

Ooooooooooohh -- those are spiffy. I'll stick with what I have -- but those
are nice -- and do they fit a Vanagon and clear the speakers.

Cheers,
Doug

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Doug Alcock <doug.alcock@gmail.com> wrote:

> As I said I put on the Jetta window cranks. I have an 84 Westy. When I
> installed aftermarket speakers I put on 85+ speaker grilles which come out
> further than the flush ones on the 84. The 85 grilles cost me $5 at a swap
> meet somwhere. I then laboriously filed the Jetta window cranks until I had
> enough clearance to not scratch the speaker grilles (which I had painted
> brown to match my interior. No spacers needed. I have heard of others who
> have carefully bent the stock cranks to clears the speakers -- and of others
> who have spent the money on BusDepot spacers. My solution worked for me --
> but the BusDepot spcers aren't that much money.
>
> Cheers,
> Doug
>
>   On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Andrew Martin <ramblinvan@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thread jacker!
>>
>> The good cranks are easy enough to find, at least in black, but who has a
>> line on the spacers that move the cranks out for aftermarket speaker grill
>> clearance??
>>
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