Date:         Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:26:43 -0800
Reply-To:     pensioner <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
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From:         pensioner <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Lid Clearance
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In a former life I was the owner of the shortest lived AUDI conversion in
history.  28 days 1600 miles blooie cracked piston.  We learn.  If one
visits the local purveyor of steam table food one notices these little
stainless dishes that sit in the steam table.  If one looks closely just
past the overdone broccoli one notices that these critters are squarish and
have a lip on em, kinda like BenT up at the sides.  Using a laser aligned
piece of scrap cardboard make a mockup or mockba of your engine cover.  Cut
out the areas where additional clearance is needed making sure the hole
matches the dimensions of the pan you stole at the truckstop where the serve
the well done broccoli.  Put the pan in the hole so it doesn't fall through
on the motor and stans old cat and viola ... a nice little stainless
clearance thingy that doubles as a broccoli dish.  Naw, Mike you put the
thing in upside down.  Make it so the pan is a bump not a dip.  Transfer the
design from the laser aligned cardboard to your spare engine cover.  You DO
have spare, right?  If not I'm sure JordanVW can sell you one.  Now cut out
the hole in the spare to match the hole in the cardboard.  Place the pan in
the hole with the lip on the engine side so if there was any broccoli left
it would fall on the cat.  Use some of that duck tape or goose tape or Gun
Tape to hold it in place while you make sure it clears.  Attach using your
favorite fasteners, dzus for those who just gotta have a new way in, screws
for those who think they might have to take it off.  Pop rivets for the
brave.  Duck tape for the stingy.  If after you pop rivet it in, you notice
that the vertical clearance isn't quite enough you can just undo it and put
the lip on the cabin side of the cover.  Paint to match.  Pinstriping and
airbrushing a likeness of Britney or Connie Chunk is of course optional for
the fetish prone.

p