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> From: Andrew McCain <dmccain@SEVAKFI.ORG>
> To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
> Subject: another hatch strut victim
> Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 7:31 AM
>
> not quite concussed, but mine went too. btw, that's a very long, but
> very fitting name - "the thing that hurts when the worn struts allow it
> to drop on your head." thanks to the list, i found an old plastic vacuum
> wand, cut in half, to sleeve the d*** things.
>
> thank again.
>
> AnDrew McCain
> '82 Diesel(still unregistered)
> Istanbul, Turkey

Brad Horner here,
I bought my vanagon with a pair of struts called "koblenz" from Germany.
The man that I bought the van from told me they are after-market. They hold
the hatch in any position you leave it at. Works for me.