[Zmagnette] cowl vent

[charles durning]

John,

Thanks for the insight.  I'll keep looking.  The strange thing is I cannot
even pull the vent open from the outside.  Gotta be some bent and seized
parts.

Charlie Durning

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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:54 PM, John Perkins <zamagnette at charter.net>wrote:

>  Charlie:
>     On my car, I found that over time the joints in the linkage (the
> designer must have been paid by the link) got rusty and trying to actuate
> the lever bent the links.  I covered every joint I could see with
> penetrating lubricant and straightened and much of the linkage as I could.
> After working it slowly, I got my vent to fully open.
>     Perkins
>
> On 5/15/2014 1:23 PM, Allen Bachelder wrote:
>
> I'd like an answer to this one too.  From bitter experience, I do know
> that there are about a million wrong ways to fit this mechanism together -
> all of them WRONG!  I also believe the diagram in the SPM is incorrect.
>
> Aaaarrrrrrrrrrrgh!
>
> Allen
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>  On May 15, 2014, at 2:19 PM, charles durning wrote:
>
> For some reason my cowl vent on my '58 ZB Chick Magnette will not open.
> The lever moves what appears to be a full stroke but the cowl only opens
> about 1/4 inch.  I've looked under the dash to see if I can understand how
> it works and see if anything looks bent.  Frankly I'm pereplexed.  Perhaps
> I'm looking in the wrong place.  Anybody have information on how the cowl
> vent works?
>
> Charlie Durning
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