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Purple Martin Samba Member
Joined: May 27, 2004 Posts: 65 Location: Canberra
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 9:26 pm Post subject: thermostat, rod, vanes etc: photos please! |
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While I have my engine out for something else I want to install thermostat, rod, vanes etc (some POS PO removed the lot ). But having never seen them in place I don't know how to put it all together. Does anyone have photos I could refer to please? _________________ 1959 1600 bug
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74 Thing Samba Member
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APPLEGREENVW Samba Member
Joined: November 30, 2003 Posts: 2387 Location: Seekonk,Massachusetts USA
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vamram Samba Member
Joined: March 08, 2012 Posts: 7300 Location: NOVA
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:01 am Post subject: Re: thermostat, rod, vanes etc: photos please! |
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Awesomepowdercoat.com also has YouTube videos showing the complete installation of all the tin, including the vanes and thermostat. _________________ Eventually, "we are what we pretend to be.’”
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BMFBMF Samba Member
Joined: November 13, 2020 Posts: 355 Location: Swtzerland
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 12:23 pm Post subject: Re: thermostat, rod, vanes etc: photos please! |
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I'm also reinstalling all the cooling stuff, stovepipe etc.
Quick question about retaining the thermostat rod to the flap, should I try to fit some type of circlip or quick nut to the rod where it goes though the spring in the flap. From looking at it it looks like it will stay put but Ive seen some photos with some kind of retaining mechanism. Like this one.
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Glenn Mr. 010
Joined: December 25, 2001 Posts: 76897 Location: Sneaking up behind you
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 1:03 pm Post subject: Re: thermostat, rod, vanes etc: photos please! |
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_________________ Glenn
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Tim Donahoe Samba Member
Joined: December 08, 2012 Posts: 11740 Location: Redding, CA
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:13 pm Post subject: Re: thermostat, rod, vanes etc: photos please! |
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ACE Hardware has the little caps to press onto the end of the thermostat rod. These caps look something like the hat that Zorro wore. Take the rod with you to ACE to get the proper size cap.
That "spring" you mentioned is not a spring. It is a specially curved bracket. You do not want to alter the shape of this "C" bracket. Of you do, the travel of the rod can be affected so that the rod will gang up in the hole in the head where it passes through (the hole nearest the crankshaft, by the way).
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Floating VW Samba Member
Joined: April 28, 2015 Posts: 1596 Location: The South Zone
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: thermostat, rod, vanes etc: photos please! |
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I now have a clip on the end of mine that I fabricated myself, but I don't know why I bothered. That rod didn't have a clip on it for about three decades and it never slipped out of the bracket. I honestly don't think it's physically possible for it to slip out. _________________ "It's time you started treating people as individuals, rather than mathematically predictable members of an aggregate set, regardless of how well that works." |
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BMFBMF Samba Member
Joined: November 13, 2020 Posts: 355 Location: Swtzerland
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 3:10 am Post subject: Re: thermostat, rod, vanes etc: photos please! |
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Hi Tim, thank for the input
I said "spring" as the bracket is indeed made of "spring" steel, I guess it has some "give" in case something binds. Its possible to move quite some distance and it springs right back. I agree though it's job is not to be a spring.
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BMFBMF Samba Member
Joined: November 13, 2020 Posts: 355 Location: Swtzerland
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 12:26 pm Post subject: Re: thermostat, rod, vanes etc: photos please! |
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So took some hours but my flaps and thermostat are now in and working. Don't know if this has happened to anyone else but it was impossible to push the rod through the head with flaps in the shroud. It jammed solid. Spent some time playing with a spare flap and rod and nothing worked besides giving the flap a twist before installing the rod. Had to take the right flap out put it in place and then drop the shroud. Then putting the 4 screws in place. Quite fiddly getting everythong hooked up but it's now rocking and rolling! |
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