Re: [T3] Leaf Removal

[John Fessenden "fess" <fess-vwtype3.org@fess.org>]

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On Oct 31, 2004, at 9:29 AM, Kenneth Waddell wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I have been follow the thread about water leak in t-3's; now I got a
> question.  How does one remove the leaves form the fresh air intake 
> area?  I
> can't figure it out.

Mine [ '72 ] was particularly bad, when I got it, and it took me a while
to actually figure out how bad my problems with it were.

I ended up removing the fresh air box, disassembling it to get
all the junk out of it. [ and the fan had rotted from sitting
in gobs of water. ]

with it removed I was able to put a shop vac with it's
wide floor attachment around the opening where the
fresh air box was.  Once I had this sucking stuff out
I was able to use chopsticks through the grill up top
and shuffle all the larger still wet chunks around
until they got sucked out.   I Imagine that compressed
air would have been really helpful at that point.
but the vacuum from underneath turned out to be
an incredibly helpful trick.

after that I had to clear the exit lines for the water
as both were quite clogged. I just poked through them
and tried to run water through, until it ran smooth.

hope that helps.

--fess

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