Date:         Fri, 25 Jan 2002 01:29:56 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Heater blower/fresh air flap pictures
Comments: To: Chris Stann <ChrisS@INFORMS.COM>
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At 10:40 PM 1/24/2002, Chris Stann wrote:
>For the forever inquisitive and those who are unfortunate enough to have
>experienced it on their own: http://www.knology.net/~vw/dash/
>
>Some pictures from my latest surgery:  The dash pull.
>
>Chris.

Nice pics...you're right, you missed the two hanging plastic flaps in the
upper section that normally allow ram air to flow into the box without
having to go through the blower.  They normally hang halfway open; ram air
opens them farther, and the blower slams them shut.  They are a completely
stupid design, made to fail -- they have little plastic pins at the ends
that snap *up* into little plastic clips so that the pin is resting on the
open section of the clip.  The pins wear, the opening gets bigger, they jam
or fall out completely.  Fixing them is no piece of cake either, access
is...um...difficult.  I ended up driving heated brads through from the side
to form a suspension.  In extremis you could glue them shut -- that would
reduce ram air considerably, but the blower would work.

cheers,
david


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