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RIOMX Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2005 Posts: 1234 Location: La Crosse, WI
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:00 pm Post subject: Need suggestions for making metal piece for cooling flaps |
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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:
As you can see, they differ from those used on a doghouse shroud (these also found in a search):
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):
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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borninabus Samba R&D Dept.
Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 4532 Location: Arizona Highways
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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i assume you are talking about the adapter that connects the flap "pegs" to the flat bar? _________________ 71 Ghia A/S - 88 Van A/T - 13 JSW TDI 6M/T |
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RIOMX Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2005 Posts: 1234 Location: La Crosse, WI
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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borninabus wrote: |
i assume you are talking about the adapter that connects the flap "pegs" to the flat bar? |
Exactly |
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aeromech Samba Member
Joined: January 24, 2006 Posts: 16922 Location: San Diego, California
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Lead Mechanic: San Diego Air and Space Museum
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borninabus Samba R&D Dept.
Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 4532 Location: Arizona Highways
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ 71 Ghia A/S - 88 Van A/T - 13 JSW TDI 6M/T |
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Glenn Mr. 010
Joined: December 25, 2001 Posts: 76760 Location: Sneaking up behind you
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Glenn
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RIOMX Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2005 Posts: 1234 Location: La Crosse, WI
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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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
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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RIOMX Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2005 Posts: 1234 Location: La Crosse, WI
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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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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borninabus Samba R&D Dept.
Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 4532 Location: Arizona Highways
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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RIOMX wrote: |
Same size, thankfully |
that's good to know. i have had a set for years that i thought i couldn't use. _________________ 71 Ghia A/S - 88 Van A/T - 13 JSW TDI 6M/T |
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RIOMX Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2005 Posts: 1234 Location: La Crosse, WI
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:36 am Post subject: |
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I made some replacement brackets that still had the same height as the stock ones.
Here are the cooling flaps after cleaning them up:
I used some Tee Plates from Ace Hardware that had very similar distances between holes to those on the stock brackets:
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:
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:
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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aeromech Samba Member
Joined: January 24, 2006 Posts: 16922 Location: San Diego, California
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:17 am Post subject: |
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Dude,
You posted that at 1:36 am. Are you obsessive compulsive? _________________ Lead Mechanic: San Diego Air and Space Museum
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RIOMX Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2005 Posts: 1234 Location: La Crosse, WI
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:42 am Post subject: |
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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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