Good day everyone !!! If you go on the inside of your Vanagon, grab your latch
and wiggle it, and if it moves something like this then this video is for you!!!
Good day everyone GarageKing here and as you saw on the outside we had a loose
latch here's a better look from the inside so in this video I'm going to
show you how to fix this little thing so it's not loose. Some of them come ripping
right off!!!! But mine's halfway there already, as you can see this is the kit
that I bought from Go Westy, it's a full kit so I'm gonna replace it. This
one came with the screwdriver. I actually only needed this plate but the kit
actually isn't that much more than just a plate, this plate is where all the
money is, so I didn't want to wait so I decided to just buy the kit anyway and
it looked like a handy-dandy screwdriver I already have one of these types of
screwdrivers it's a little bit different than this one but I figured why not so I
wanted to make this video so let's start okay so we're gonna use our little
screwdriver here and we're just gonna get under there and undo this bolt
okay and if you can see I got my other screwdriver just cuz it's a little hard
to to use the one that came in the kit so the other my other screwdriver is
biting a little bit better and I'll show you why when when I get this bolt out
there we go we have it off, and I didn't drop any pieces
okay so there we have the part off and there's actually nothing much to this
part there's no moving parts in it or anything like that so I opened up the Go
Westy kit, and here's what was in it. We just got some thread locker, two new
springs, some bolts, there's one two three we should have another one I guess it
rolled away here we go there's four new bolts
there's our end pads and little gaskets and these things have little felt
gaskets on them you can see so that's kind of nice so you saw I just took out
those pieces there now why I changed screwdrivers is this. If you look at this
how thick this is and the screwdriver that I had had a very thin blade on it
and it just seemed to bite better. The Go Westy one seemed a little fat so
it was just harder to get into to get into this screw that's all the other
thing about the two screwdrivers I should mention is that mine was a little
longer so it's just easier to get up just easier to get up in there so that's
all okay in here we're looking right at it you can see someone actually put a
flathead in there where there should be no flathead so if I try to turn this
with my screwdriver I can see it's actually stripped it just won't even
tighten up so that would explain why it is moving and loose on the bottom like
this. This part just won't tighten up so now what we're gonna do is we're just
gonna get our our Phillips screwdriver let me get you a better angle here so
here we go we're just gonna take our Phillips screwdriver and we're just
gonna undo it and it's probably gonna fall on the ground outside and there we
go okay so now we're on the other outside of the vehicle we're just gonna
take this piece off and there is our old piece and actually if you look right
there you can see it's cracked that was a problem and there's no
threads left so that's why it was loose so we are going to replace it there we
go give it a nice wipe okay so here's what we're gonna replace with so we got
a spring two new bolts our new piece there and we'll put some Thread Locker
on it's just the blue stuff either you have it in bulk or and the go I stick it
actually comes with it we're gonna clean this piece up we're not gonna reuse any
of these old bolts here so we're gonna replace this piece we do have to reuse
the pin, and it looks like it's in really good shape so we'll just give that a
nice wipe off it it's not corroded or anything so that looks great we can just
put it together now okay so we're gonna take our new piece make sure you have
the gasket on it just like so and we're just gonna fit it in just like so make
sure it's nice and snug so let's put this let's put this piece on now when
you put it on it does not go this way you have to make sure that you put it in
the right way so it's got to go this way so let's put some Thread Locker on the
bolts and we can install it and we can see there's our thread Locker so as long
as we get it on the bolt there we go just like so wait wipe that off our
finger now if you don't have an assistant you can see my hands here I've
just straddled the door there's my hand on the other side what I'm gonna do is I
can just get one hand on this side one hand on the other side I can line it up
okay and I have it just like so and there we go now I don't want to tighten
it all the way just a little bit so you can see it is on and it is snug and then
I'm gonna get the other bolt so we got the other bolt and we are tightening it
up now what I want to do when I tighten it up is I want to make sure that
everything is aligned properly and there we go and that squeaking you're hearing
that's just my window and there you can see it
looks like it's lined up I just want to make sure it's vertical I want to make
sure I'm a bit of a perfectionist I just want to make sure we're 100% where we're
supposed to be there you go and we should be right here so I'm just gonna
Snug it up now and we're gonna snug at the bottom and we are good so now let's
put the rest of it back together now that we have our piece all installed you
can see top screw bottom screw what we have to do is we are going to put our
cover on but as you can see if we try to put this thing on there we go it's gonna
go it's not lining up where it's flush so what you have to remember to do is
line up this this piece here with one of the notches here and this way your
handle will be able to pivot all the way to the top so you just got to make sure
you slide your window either all the way closed or open one it doesn't really
matter but just to this notch this has to be lined up to that much so we've
lined it up to the notch there okay so we have our new pin if you look in our
pin there's an actual hole right in there
we're gonna place our new spring inside of the pin just like this just so it's
like that now we're gonna get our piece
let's put our angled screwdriver on there we go let's try to see if we can
tighten it in we may have started it you can see it didn't fall out
oh and I think we might be we might be all the way tight I think it tightened
up let's see if we can and there it is and yeah there it is it's loose I can
feel it and tightens up right there so maybe go just a wee bit more if I can
get it there we go and that's it it's tight enough cuz you don't wanna go too
tight oh you're never gonna be able to get it on undone so that's it it's
installed and it's uh it's nice and tight let's get a better angle you can
see before we could move it now we can't anymore so it's great we can actually
push it yeah sorry about that we can adjust our window nice and easy
there we go so what did I need the kid actually came it came with two which was
great so I can save this one for the other side as you can see I put the two
screws in and the two gaskets I'm gonna save for the next time I'm gonna save
the extra spring in cases prune pops out and I lose it you never know so the Go Westy
kit came with this screwdriver but like I said mine seemed to work
better just because it was longer in this regards and then the flat part
there that goes in was a little thinner so I guess it was just easier to bite I
don't know or easier to get in cuz it is quite a tough angle so actually that's
all I needed and then just a number two phillips screwdriver actually i think
it's number two yeah number two phillips screwdriver so really that's that's all
i needed to fix the window on my Westfalia hopefully you've enjoyed the
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