For anyone else's reference, I arranged the spring according to this
picture.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=435722

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On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Gabriel Hourtouat <ghourtouat@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks!
> With information gleaned from many archived postings with generous
> descriptions, I managed to change the sliding door handle.  (And thanks to
> Craig, Scott K and Jim Felder for help on p-mail.)
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> Should have been simple, right?  Ultimately, I had to resort to hammer and
> drift to get the old handle out of the square-ish hole.
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> One question: Repairing the door handle seems to have caused a coolant
> leak at the oil cooler -- has that happened to any of you?  :)
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> Wish I could trade back:     broken handle -- no leak.
>
> Cheers,
> Gabby
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