[Zmagnette] cowl vent

[John Perkins]

Charlie:
     When it stops raining tomorrow, I'll try to get outside and get a 
picture from under my dash to show you what I had to do to get mine working.
     Perkins

On 5/15/2014 3:34 PM, charles durning wrote:
> 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
> If you are using Google or Gmail, Big Brother is watching.
>
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:54 PM, John Perkins <zamagnette at charter.net 
> <mailto: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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