Hi Dave, 

Did you try lifting from the side bars just under the round piece the horizontal bar connects to?

Again I have the assist struts so that may be a factor. 

Eric Caron 

> On Jul 24, 2022, at 10:35 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Sounds like it does a good job.  Congratulations.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 3:30 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Dave,
>> 
>> At home all day today, warm day now in the afternoon and I’m drenched in
>> sweat from yard work.
>> 
>> But….
>> 
>> At noon I turned on the fridge , dc power. The inside van temp was 28, the
>> inside fridge temp was 25. Van in the sun, fridge side of the van facing
>> south.
>> 
>> At one o’clock , fridge temp was 3.0.  Of course this is empty fridge and
>> not pulling down the temp of non pre chilled comestibles. The temp in the
>> fridge seems to range from 0 to 3 at this setting. Again the temp swing due
>> to no thermal mass inside.
>> 
>> But the point is, it cools down fairly fast.
>> 
>> Just another bit of anecdotal evidence :-)
>> 
>> Alistair
>> 
>> On Jul 23, 2022, at 9:11 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Alistair, What about fit?  Dimensions a close replacement for the stock
>> refrigerator?  It is quite a bit bigger, inside volume (cooled space).
>> 
>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 6:55 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yeah I went over. I’ve installed a Dometic CRX-50 fridge. And I
>>> repurposed the stock fridge vent .
>>> https://shufti.blog/2022/07/23/vanagon-stock-fridge-vent-delete-option/
>>> 
>>> Alistair
>>> 
>>