[Zmagnette] Air Vent Removal

[Allen Bachelder]

Only to add that once the screen is removed, I believe two large 1/4" bolts are revealed, holding the cover to the mechanism.  If you've removed the dash first, and the radio, etc, removal of the rest will be pretty much intuitive. BUT DO make some drawings and take some pictures showing how the linkage goes together. There are several ways of reassembling it, in close correspondence with SPL  and FWM, that are nevertheless wrong. You cannot be too careful about this.  A couple extra hours spent documenting the disassembly will save you MANY hours putting it together.  The manuals do not teach you anywhere near what you need to put this together.  Your only real guide is the original assembly and it's disassembly.  This is one of the few places where our list breaks down.  A lot of us have done this; Damn few of us remember how!  Bear in mind that you will teach yourself most of what you need to know. Go slow on your disassembly and draw a lot of pictures!

FWIW,
Allen
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On Dec 19, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Steve Hanegan wrote:

> Once you take the screws that are along the top edge of the screen off, the screen can be removed. After the screen is removed, the nuts that hold the cowl vent cover to its' hinge mechanism will be exposed and can be removed along with the cowl vent cover. The hinge assembly itself needs to be removed from inside the car with the dash out.
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> Steve H.
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> On Dec 19, 2013, at 3:44 AM, "Steve C." <laverda at aol.com> wrote:
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>> The phillips head screws under the lid and above the screen mesh are just to hold the screen in place. I do not know how the actual lid comes out. It gas been more then 20 years since I restored my ZA, but I remember thinking it was not designed to be removed after assembly by MG. 
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>> Sent from my Android phone with mail.com Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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>> franklin sprafke <frsprafke at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> How do I remove he air vent* that resides between the bonnet and the windscreen?  I've been unable to find good exploded diagrams in either the WSM or SPL.  
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>> * the SPL calls the vent cover: P/N 36 Lid Assembly - Dash Ventilator
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>> I can open the vent up, but it is very rusty and doesn't move well.  The vent cover itself looks to be in reasonably good shape but I suspect it is all rotted out underneath the lid.  When I open the vent, I can see a number of phillips head screws under the lid and above the screen mesh.  I suspect that removing them will allow me to pull the vent lid off, but those screws are so rusty they are going to break long before I can unscrew them so I thought I'd better ask for advice from the group. 
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>> I have the heater unit out of the car, but I don't see any easy access from underneath.   I can se e that there are 4 screws under the dash that look like they hold the flap to the air vent duct in place.  However,  it looks like it will still be impossible to extract the flap even if those 4 screws do come out - it's a really tight fit under there.  
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>> So before I go about this the wrong way - what is the right way to remove the vent for repair?  
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>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> 
>> Dick
>> 
>> Dick Sprafke
>> Providence, RI
>> 57 ZB
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