Re: [T3] Flaps and ducts

["aedan mcghie/scotland" <VKG465J@surak.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 8, 1999 05:20, Nathan Jacobsen <mailto:syncroman@wa.freei.net>
wrote:
>Yes, they are drainage flaps. I think the way they work is that they close
>when the engine is running due to the vacuum, and they open when at rest
to
>drain the water out.




So is it important that they don't have openings to the bottom when the
engine is running?

The bottom of the rear wings are rusted through on mine, you can see some
daylight, this would mean that air (and other things) could sucked up.

aedan

1971 VW fastback
1989 Volvo 240GL

Our en¥É2âall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with own
confusion.

We shall prevail.


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