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PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:00 pm    Post subject: Need suggestions for making metal piece for cooling flaps Reply with quote

This past weekend I scored some free cooling flaps from a very cool dude from my local club. They are from a non-doghouse-style fan shroud, and look like these, which I found in a gallery search:

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As you can see, they differ from those used on a doghouse shroud (these also found in a search):

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I have the connecting piece that you see in the photo above and that looks like this when mounted on the fan shroud (photo also found in a search):

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The reason I got the flaps was cause I only had one side of flaps for the doghouse shroud I have. Unfortunately, that also means that I only have one of the pieces attached to the flaps that looks like this:

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Can anyone give some suggestions on what I could make one from?

I was thinking I'd go to the hardware store and get a hinge or something and bend and cut it...
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i assume you are talking about the adapter that connects the flap "pegs" to the flat bar?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

borninabus wrote:
i assume you are talking about the adapter that connects the flap "pegs" to the flat bar?


Exactly
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Have you tried looking in thesamba classifieds and just buying one? Making one would be pretty easy too. Is there a metal supply house near you. They usually have scrap binds where you could probably find a piece of steel you could use and just do the bends. Also, if you have one you could try to find a place that does sheet metal work and ask them to fab one for you. That would be easy and not too expensive.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Also, if you have one you could try to find a place that does sheet metal work and ask them to fab one for you. That would be easy and not too expensive.


try a muffler shop.

you might want to measure those flaps. i think the doghouse ones are wider than the non-doghouse.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

borninabus wrote:
you might want to measure those flaps. i think the doghouse ones are wider than the non-doghouse.

The flaps are the same, the linkage is different.

Now the fans are different widths.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

aeromech wrote:
Joe,
Have you tried looking in thesamba classifieds and just buying one? Making one would be pretty easy too. Is there a metal supply house near you. They usually have scrap binds where you could probably find a piece of steel you could use and just do the bends. Also, if you have one you could try to find a place that does sheet metal work and ask them to fab one for you. That would be easy and not too expensive.


People are selling flaps, but for way too much money. They're getting harder and harder to find, so I understand, but I've been able to score a nice doghouse shroud for $5 at a swap meet that would have cost me $75 at the local shop, and these flaps would have cost me around $20-50 online, and I got some for free instead Smile

I was thinking of contacting a sheet metal place, but wasn't sure if they did small jobs like this one
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

borninabus wrote:
aeromech wrote:
Also, if you have one you could try to find a place that does sheet metal work and ask them to fab one for you. That would be easy and not too expensive.


try a muffler shop.

you might want to measure those flaps. i think the doghouse ones are wider than the non-doghouse.


Same size, thankfully
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RIOMX wrote:
Same size, thankfully


that's good to know. i have had a set for years that i thought i couldn't use.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I made some replacement brackets that still had the same height as the stock ones.

Here are the cooling flaps after cleaning them up:

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I used some Tee Plates from Ace Hardware that had very similar distances between holes to those on the stock brackets:

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I sawed off the tee and put together some bolts, nuts, washers and spacers to make the same height as the protruding center piece on the stock brackets:

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Can't remember what the thick spacers I used are called, but I secured the flaps using those and some hairpin cotter pins. This is how they looked on each side:

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I didn't take a picture of when I mounted them, but the whole system worked just fine when I finally installed it in the shroud.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dude,
You posted that at 1:36 am. Are you obsessive compulsive?
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

aeromech wrote:
Dude,
You posted that at 1:36 am. Are you obsessive compulsive?


Pretty much. Got back after a late movie, took some pictures and posted. I either make myself do things, or I never get them done.
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