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RixiesRide
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I didn't have any emory cloth so I haven't fixed the housing yet but is this the piece of steel that is mentioned? I found this while cleaning out the bus.
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busdaddy
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| RixiesRide wrote: |
I didn't have any emory cloth so I haven't fixed the housing yet but is this the piece of steel that is mentioned? I found this while cleaning out the bus.
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Yes, that's the piece that usually needs a little squish in the vise to remove a tiny bit of the curve so it can clamp on the column.
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RixiesRide
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I'm glad I asked because now I understand your instructions better. I thought you meant put it in a vice to flatten it out if it was bent not to close up the C shape a bit.
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RixiesRide
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I'm glad I asked because now I understand your instructions better. I thought you meant put it in a vice to flatten it out if it was bent not to close up the C shape a bit.
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busdaddy
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Not close it up, spread it out so the middle is closer to the column, the middle gets bent from overtightening the screws and loses it's ability to grip. We're only talking a MM or two here, not some major reshaping.
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RixiesRide
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RixiesRide
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I promise this will be my last stupid question for a while.
This is all the stuff that was in the back of my '73. Most of it looks like garbage to me but I don't want to throw anything out that I may need later on.
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Big Papi
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Is there a gasket between the master cylinder and the brake servo? 78bus
If so, know where I can get it?
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Wildthings
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| RixiesRide wrote: |
I promise this will be my last stupid question for a while.
This is all the stuff that was in the back of my '73. Most of it looks like garbage to me but I don't want to throw anything out that I may need later on. |
Not a Porsche kind of guy, but I think a lot of what you have once graced a Porsche. |
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Tcash
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Is there a gasket between the master cylinder and the brake servo? 78bus
If so, know where I can get it? |
#16 is an oring.
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Wildthings
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Is there a gasket between the master cylinder and the brake servo? 78bus
If so, know where I can get it? |
The seals of the master cylinder see brake booster vacuum which is why the booster fills with brake fluid when the seals in the master cylinder fail. |
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ROCKOROD71
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woo, stupid question time! I've got some 75-78 heater boxes and manifolds I am refurbing to install in my bus. The manifolds have some heat shield tin around them, with what looks like Asbestos inside them. 1) IS this asbestos? and 2) the tin is mostly there but has some holes at the rear of the manifold (rear of car) Should I just do away with these? The tin is so thin I don't think it could be welded. However its good enough to take apart and send to someone who might want to make a template to make some of these tins. Most manifolds I see don't have them, wondering how functional they are....
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Wildthings
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| woo, stupid question time! I've got some 75-78 heater boxes and manifolds I am refurbing to install in my bus. The manifolds have some heat shield tin around them, with what looks like Asbestos inside them. 1) IS this asbestos? and 2) the tin is mostly there but has some holes at the rear of the manifold (rear of car) Should I just do away with these? The tin is so thin I don't think it could be welded. However its good enough to take apart and send to someone who might want to make a template to make some of these tins. Most manifolds I see don't have them, wondering how functional they are.... |
In a non salt area they do a good job with keeping the pipes from rusting. Don't know if in a salt area if they are good or bad. |
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busdaddy
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I can't find the thread where the benefits of the heat shielding was debated but it's usually safe to assume if VW put it there it can't be bad. No body has eve proven there isn't asbestos in there so if you are going to peel them do it underwater in a bucket.
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ROCKOROD71
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well, it looks like asbestos to me. I peeled the tin off of one manifold with gloves and a mask on, in a plastic bag, then brushed it all off outside. Hopefully I won't catch the cancer. I'll hang onto them if I ever figure how to repair them and or make some kind of template with them. They are actually in pretty good shape, except for the one spot on both that is rotted out. Front most part that's on the heater box side.
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dlxkey
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Here's one I can't find discussed anywhere else...
I'm working on a '77 with a 2.0L, no A/C or other weird stuff.
Has anyone else disassembled their fan ducting to find a very factory-looking tab very securely crimped to the right side of the top opening of the oil cooler duct - holding the left air flap firmly down against and sealing the opening of the oil cooler duct?
I did last night, and am a little shocked by it. When I bought the vehicle I made sure one of the first things I did was adjust the thermostat cable. But, even though the flap rod pivots freely, this tab holding the left flap down effectively immobilizes it. The slop in the left flap's linkage lets the rod pivot enough to allow the right flap to move through about 10-20 degrees of motion - from about 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock viewed from the left - which hardly seems like it would have an effect on the air flow.
My initial reaction is to remove the tab when I reassemble the ducting. But if the Germans put it there at the factory there must be a reason, right???
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busdaddy
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Here's one I can't find discussed anywhere else...
I'm working on a '77 with a 2.0L, no A/C or other weird stuff.
Has anyone else disassembled their fan ducting to find a very factory-looking tab very securely crimped to the right side of the top opening of the oil cooler duct - holding the left air flap firmly down against and sealing the opening of the oil cooler duct?
I did last night, and am a little shocked by it. When I bought the vehicle I made sure one of the first things I did was adjust the thermostat cable. But, even though the flap rod pivots freely, this tab holding the left flap down effectively immobilizes it. The slop in the left flap's linkage lets the rod pivot enough to allow the right flap to move through about 10-20 degrees of motion - from about 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock viewed from the left - which hardly seems like it would have an effect on the air flow.
My initial reaction is to remove the tab when I reassemble the ducting. But if the Germans put it there at the factory there must be a reason, right???
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Sounds like the work of some uninformed know it all, the LH flap should lift when cold and drop when the thermostat opens.
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dlxkey
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Sounds like the work of some uninformed know it all, the LH flap should lift when cold and drop when the thermostat opens. |
I'll take a picture when I get home and try and post it tonight. Whoever put it there was an expert at breaking sheetmetal because it's made and fit so well it looks like it belongs there. In fact it fits so well I'm going to have to pry it off if that's what it comes down to. I tried pulling it off with just my fingers and it was too snug. |
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babysnakes
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Wadizzit? It's listed in the classifieds as a Westy, it isn't. Is it a Rivi? The top looks longer than the early Rivi's I've seen. I also have never seen a rear window of this nature. Is that widow a "rarest of the rare" and should I ask there? |
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busdaddy
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Wadizzit? It's listed in the classifieds as a Westy, it isn't. Is it a Rivi? The top looks longer than the early Rivi's I've seen. I also have never seen a rear window of this nature. Is that widow a "rarest of the rare" and should I ask there? |
Hannover, a Canadian conversion from right here in little ol'e Surrey BC, IIRC that one has had a Westfalia interior swapped in.
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