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On 30 Apr 2004 at 20:09, Patrick wrote: > I didn't always run the clamps either until I polished the inside of my > yellow fastys fan housing to help increase airflow and wound it up to > 6500rpm. Made a horrible noise, some light knocking type sounds and a lot of > vibrations as the fan proceeded to destroy the boot. Some of it stayed in > the fan as well. Lots of the pieces melted to the cylinder fins as the motor > was hot when I did this. Made for a real mess and I pulled the motor out and > down to a longblock to clean all the shredded and melted rubber. I used both > clamps from that point on. :-D I always leave the body end band in place. There's never any reason to remove it since you can just roll the bellows back inside itself and into the body when you remove the engine. That way there's no chance of putting it back on upside down or of it's getting sucked into the engine. There's still some chance of the engine end's coming loose, but I'm careful to get it pulled fully into position (it's not easy) and in 35 years I've never had one come loose. OTOH, I tend to reuse the old original German ones, and I think they tend to be a lot stiffer. I really don't know if that's the way they were made, or if that's just because they are old and hardened. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org