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Re: fresh air door helper spring on e-body a/c heater box
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02/11/13 05:25 PM
02/11/13 05:25 PM
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bump... All boxes built in currently?
TIA Thomas
I can't tell you exactly where it goes as it is not a totally exact science and I don't have my box out. What I can tell you is it helps a lot if you rivet a 1/16" piece of sheet metal on the outside of the box there to prevent the hole from ovaling out.
This is what happened on my Charger's box and the helper spring was getting stuck because of the ovaled hole. I mean, it just plastic so it's gonna happen. I riveted on the sheet metal, drilled it and ground a small circle around the hole for the spring to rotate in and that fixed it. If yours is broken here, you may consider doing this.
That spring gets under a good amount of tension and will pull itself through a glue repair pretty easily.
Just my two cents
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Re: fresh air door helper spring on e-body a/c heater box
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02/12/13 03:46 PM
02/12/13 03:46 PM
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...What I can tell you is it helps a lot if you rivet a 1/16" piece of sheet metal on the outside of the box there to prevent the hole from ovaling out.
This is what happened on my Charger's box and the helper spring was getting stuck because of the ovaled hole. I mean, it just plastic so it's gonna happen. I riveted on the sheet metal, drilled it and ground a small circle around the hole for the spring to rotate in and that fixed it. If yours is broken here, you may consider doing this.
That spring gets under a good amount of tension and will pull itself through a glue repair pretty easily.
Many thanks for enlighten me. I would see that in a couple years, otherwise.
Really good upgrade to the original box, I will do that definitely too.
Now let's find, where the hole goes, I think I will ask DMT directly.
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Re: fresh air door helper spring on e-body a/c heater box
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02/13/13 07:48 PM
02/13/13 07:48 PM
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I just make the foam pieces I can see if I have pieces from an old E A/C heater box at the shop to get measurements from. Jim
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Re: fresh air door helper spring on e-body a/c heater box
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02/14/13 02:36 PM
02/14/13 02:36 PM
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I just make the foam pieces
I can see if I have pieces from an old E A/C heater box at the shop to get measurements from.
Jim
Hi Jim,
yeah, I got my foam pieces from you (DMT), and the pic above is from your foam resto guide. You delivered to CA last summer, when I was there. Just wrote an email to Loretta 1-2 days ago, as I have the email address from paypal.
Thanks for looking. Thomas
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Re: fresh air door helper spring on e-body a/c heater box
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03/11/13 05:19 PM
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Could anyone measure it? Still not drilled, as I have to produce the metal, where the hole goes into... TIA Thomas
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