Monday, June 3, 2013

ventilation springs

The vents on the sides of cowl/firewall section needed work - we need to add the spring pieces to keep them either in the closed position or open position.....  The ones we have were (are) in pretty sad shape......

One of them, the plunger completely disintegrated, the other one was stuck in so badly, it took me a couple hours to get it loose!  I ended up hammering it in so there was more tension on the spring, and then heating the brass part up until it 'sprung' loose......

This one I am going to try to do on my own, unless they need welding, in which I'll need help from Brian then!  I think maybe I will remake the plungers with a section of a bolt.  I need to get a little bit longer one that we have though - we have a long enough one in grade 8, but that would be hard to cut/grind.  One end needs to be flat, the other end needs to be nice and rounded to fit in a pivot hole.

Then, there is that one brass piece that the nipple broke off the end (it goes into a small hole on the handle of the vent so it doesn't slip out of place).  I am thinking maybe drill a hole and put a small screw or (?) from the inside, but that I will have to mull over for a while......


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