They have one for the earlier version too, look at the thumbnail at the bottom right side of the ad.

 

Stuart

 

From: Jim Felder [mailto:jim.felder@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 11:23 AM
To: Stuart MacMillan; vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
Subject: Re: Another strut use, now SS stove lid prop

 

Strange it only fits 85 up.

 

??

 

Jim

 

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:59 AM Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:

Had to dig around for the receipt: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1916960 

 

Stuart

 

From: Jim Felder [mailto:jim.felder@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 8:51 AM
To: Stuart MacMillan; vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
Subject: Re: Another strut use.

 

Can you give us a link for the stainless version?

 

Jim

 

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:34 AM Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:

Nice!  My EVC had gas springs for the kitchen lid, and I've often thought
about that mod. But I've since found a source for stainless steel versions
of the OEM type prop. Oh well.

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Alistair Bell
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 9:17 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Another strut use.

Coincidentally to the recent hatch strut discussion, today I got another one
of my Chinese mail deliveries.

I'm totally hooked on small purchase from banggood. I mean, it's not like
everything is great but the expense is small and many of the things turn out
pretty damn good,

This package was 4 short gas charged struts. I used one of them this
afternoon to finally replace the broken leg type support on the kitchen unit
lid.

Blog post here

https://shufti.blog/2017/03/30/vanagon-kitchen-unit-lid-strut-support/

Alistair