Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:47:19 -0400
Reply-To: Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
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From: Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Vent windows past 90 degrees -- nope
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Me too! I don't know what your van's problem is, maybe DPO reassembled things wrong somehow?
Mike B.
----- Original Message -----
From: Brendan Slevin
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: Vent windows past 90 degrees -- nope
Mine go as far past 90 as I want them to. On both the 87 syncro and 84
2wd. Hmmm. Seems odd to have a stop there, the point IMO is to scoop tons
of air and hurl it into the van. They stay open way past 90 degrees until I
hit about 45-50 MPH.
Brendan
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:38 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> I'm sorry to say that I just spent an unimproving hour and a half
> establishing that it is in practical terms impossible to remove the
> bump on the lower pivot that prevents it opening more than 90
> degrees. Unless you're willing to make a hole in the outer door
> skin. I seriously believe that they must have installed the
> quarter-windows before the outer skin went on the door. With a
> phillips-head screw. Facing out. With a piece of sheet metal 3/16"
> outside it, which I think is the upper fold of the door skin. And a
> similar piece about the same distance inside, too.
>
> The pivot is clamped by a strip of thick sheet metal with a slot in
> the middle that is half the pivot circumference in length or
> less. This is folded from back to front around the pivot and clamped
> together with a screw that also attaches the assembly to a tab on the
> door. The pivot has a bump on the shaft that runs in the
> slot. There's not enough access to get even a flex-shaft Dremel up
> there to grind down the bump, and it prevents the pivot being removed
> as well as being turned. All right, I lied. I *did* get a
> flex-shaft Dremel up there, by making a slit in the lower moisture
> barrier and passing the shaft up from there. And if I'd been willing
> to spend half an hour trying to make that nib dissapear maybe I could
> have. Five minutes sure didn't do it. Ok, when I get my gumption
> back I'll go in there and walk a worn-out cutoff wheel up and down it
> (there's only about half an inch width of access there between the
> two strips of sheet metal). Maybe. I really really really want to
> open that window so it hurls air at me, 'cause I haven't got air
> conditioning.
>
> It's easy enough to adjust the tension, because you can grasp the
> sides of the screw head with nice sharp needlenose pliers and turn it
> a sixteenth turn at a time or so.
>
> I think this came from the same keep-em-guessing department that did
> some of the cooling hoses...for total frustration with ten cents
> worth of hardware, this has the hoses beat all hollow.
>
> [/rant]
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '89 Po' White Star "Scamp"
>
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