christian wrote: [snip] >Sand-blasted the rusted, pitted flap and will prime/ paint it >tonight. I noticed on the driver's side of the flap is a spring >loaded plastic pin! What does this do. I'll check it out later. Me >suspects that you can close the flap up tight (for the winter)? You'll see some nothces pressed into the side of the vent housing. The plastic pin locates in any of these notches to give you preset flap positions - I removed the pin, spring etc. cleaned it up and greased it all up so that it worked better - gets very rusty in though :( I had another problem with my flap though. AS you said the screws which hold the flap to the shaft come loose. I noticed that the screws were NOT locating on the flats on the shaft, in fact the flats were 180 degrees out. I ended up filing two new flats opposite the old ones and the screws located fine and no further problems. I examined the shaft and could not see how the flats could be wrong other than manufacturer error :( Lee. '64 samba ps, yes I'm at the stage where I take the smallest insignificant parts apart, clean them and put them back - sad really :)
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