Date:         Tue, 16 May 2006 07:14:51 -0700
Reply-To:     Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Ok, I did the archives search,
              but found nothing. I need a flue vent cover.
Comments: To: dshowers@CPDS.NET
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Dana wrote:
>> I bought the BusDepot one before, but it weathered,
cracked and fell off within a year.

>> Anyone have any better options?  I thought I
remember someone getting a piece of tupperware to do
the job?.?.?


I fashioned one from a domed, stainless-steel
soup-kettle lid purchased at a thrift store. I
installed a T-nut in the center of the flue vent, and
drilled a hole through the center of the kettle lid
where once the knob-handle resided. A SS Allen-head
bolt and washer affix the lid to the vent, and a ring
of polyethylene weatherstripping on the edge of the
pot lid prevents metal-to-metal contact.

Polished up real nice, it's sleek and smoothly
rounded, and doesn't look as hideous as it sounds. In
fact, it's perhaps the most aerodynamic thing on the
entire van!

I've never used the OE plastic vent cover, but
deterioration and eventual loss seem to be the most
common complaint. Such sunlight damage can be
prevented by use of a good UV protectant such as 303:
http://www.303products.com/main.php

Good luck!


Jeffrey Earl
1983 diesel Westfalia "Vanasazi"
http://www.vanthology.com/

"OK, I'll leave it at that since I've already gone on
for far too long about something I don't know a whole
lot about ..."


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