| Author | Message | ||
| Russell Beam (Rcbeam)
Registered Member Username: Rcbeam Post Number: 6 Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 72.250.169.58  Rating: N/A |
I found that I have work to do to close up all the air leakage around the curb radiator area so that all of the air goes through the radiator, not around it. The street side seems to be in much better condition. It appears that the area above the blowers had some sort of plastic or membrane covering the void above the blowers and all that is gone. Is this cavity up top supposed to be all open? Not sure how this was originally. Looks like it would be a PITA to try to seal all that off. Any thoughts anyone? | ||
| clint hunter (Truthhunter)
Registered Member Username: Truthhunter Post Number: 627 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 24.129.238.13  Rating: N/A |
...seal it up , if you don't like the result you can always undo your work. I should be as sealed as possilbe as the air , not unlke like water seeks the path of least resistance. ~ The round rubber inner drum seal have been refabricated at heating duct shops for cheap with good sucess , doing away with the compund curves and goind strait cone shape. | ||
| Russell Beam (Rcbeam)
Registered Member Username: Rcbeam Post Number: 8 Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 74.131.50.239 Rating: N/A |
Clint: What and where is the round rubber inner drum seal you mention? | ||
| clint hunter (Truthhunter)
Registered Member Username: Truthhunter Post Number: 632 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 24.129.238.13 Rating: N/A |
...between the fan cylinder & the radiator shroud unless both were removed or disintegrated, as they do. ~if you have a parts book or service manual it is in there, under cooling. I could look up the page/part number tomorrow & post , assuming the approaching solar storm doesn't down the internet. -well time to dust of the sensitive electronic protection measures hand book , unplug them from long conductors , etc, etc. + hope every has prepared to prepair, just in case the space weather continues to line up perfectly bad over the next 96 hours. | ||
| Buswarrior (Buswarrior)
Registered Member Username: Buswarrior Post Number: 1893 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 174.91.144.79  Rating: N/A |
Should be hard surfaces up there. There was a factory insulation padding, but what matters is air integrity. Plug up all the holes. I used spray foam in a can to go around my rads. Easy to carve out the next time the rads have to come out, positively sealed up. Just leave the rubber remnants to act as a base for your foam. happy coaching! buswarrior | ||
| Grant Thiessen (Busshawg)
Registered Member Username: Busshawg Post Number: 266 Registered: 10-2007 Posted From: 206.45.93.160  Rating: N/A |
thumbs up on the spray foam, works well Grant |