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On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 12:28, Jim Adney wrote: > On 4 Sep 2002, at 10:01, Greg Merritt wrote: > > > I like the idea of the cooling system being all sealed up, of > > course. However, Conventional Wisdom (heh) doesn't seem to care one whit > > about a hole if you call it a timing hole, but folks get all freaked out > > if you say that a hole or two is for an air conditioner... > > Remember that the AC belt requires 2 holes for the belt, as well as a slot > between them so you can get the belt in there. Alternatively, you can cut the > slots out to the bellows seating area, but either way it's more open space. > > The slots could (and should!) be sealed with duct tape, but I suspect that the > percentage of AC type 3s with sealed slots is about the same as the > percentage of type 3s with timing plugs. > > Whatever you do, every leak in this area is hard on the engine. > The original A/C installation kit came with a self adhesive piece of foam rubber to cover the belt holes. What we actually did was to install the foam and them let the belt wear the clearance it needed. A lot of these foam pieces did NOT get installed at various dealers. BTW, I have one of the butchered fan housings, if anyone wants it. If I had a digital camera, I would take a picture of how they should NOT look. This one is really butchered bad. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/