This morning I needed to get a weed-eater out of my Westy and do some
maintenance on it, having used it and transported back in the camper area.
I discovered that my sliding door was stuck shut.  Some fiddling around
with it I noticed that the rear latch was only popping out about  1/8".
So, climbing inside I proceeded to remove the cover and insulation, etc.
While dismantling everything I noticed how all this works but the cable
adjustment device seemed like it works backward.  It also seemed like there
should have been a similar device at the rear of this cable and sheath or
some spacer to fit into that depression in the rear latch assembly.  My fix
was to use three washers, split and re-flattened onto the end of the
sheath.  That gave me enough tension for the latch mechanism to work great.

Two and a half hours after starting it was all back together and working
great.  Anyone know if there is supposed to be a spacer there?  I later
looked at ETKA but its an assembly and not well represented.

The maintenance on the weed-eater took 15 minutes.

Alan Felder
Austin TX
82 Diesel Westy

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