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Re: [Roadsters] the dreaded "extra part"

To: "John F Sandhoff" <sandhoff@csus.edu>
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] the dreaded "extra part"
From: "Bill Oakes" <boakes@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:21:24 -0500
Yep, thanks to John and Tom, once I put the heater box in for a test
fit it made more sense.

Just got done gluing the dash cap onto the now empty dash - that's
what comes next, putting that all back together.

Once step at a time, one step at a time...



On 8/16/08, John F Sandhoff <sandhoff@csus.edu> wrote:
>
>
> > I put the heater box back together, or I thought, with the re-built
> > heater core and then on the bench I still saw this:
> >
> > http://picasaweb.google.com/boakes/RoadsterMysteryPart
> >
>
>  The box itself is together.
>  If I'm correct, that rectangle of metal clamps the air duct
>  to the box. There's a largish Y-shaped rubbery part, some
>  remnants of which seem to be in your picture, that ducts the
>  air flow from the box to the defroster ducts in the dash.
>  When you operate the defroster control, there's a flap that
>  opens a hole in the box to allow air to flow into this
>  duct and to the windshield.
>
>  The flange on the rubber Y is the 'middle' of the sandwich
>  of heaterbox-duct-metalplateyouhaveleftover. Four screws
>  (IIRC) clamp it all together.
>
>  I'm sure there's a diagram in the parts catalog.
>
>  -- John
>     John F Sandhoff sandhoff@csus.edu  Sacramento, CA
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