Are these strong enough to work without the cable/spring assist?  Mine are
broken and this doesn't look like an easy fix.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Alistair Bell
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 7:27 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Poptop lift assist

I agree. I've installed 5 sets now on various friends vans. Including the
heavy duty struts (they are hard to compress with no pop top load). A big
recommendation from me too.

I did make my own home brewed version
(http://shufti.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/vanagon-pop-top-assist-struts/)
just because a friend gave me some ball end fittings and I had some old
hatch struts. It worked out fine but it really was not worth the time and
effort, better to buy JackBombay's kit.

alistair

On 2012-05-05, at 6:45 PM, Roger Barkley wrote:

> Just installed the poptop lift kit from
> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=798951    ($95.00)
> what a differance. I think it may be the best thing I've added to the
> Westy  :-)  :-)