If you need some cheap replacement clips for the blower housing, go to an office supply store and pick up some metal binder clips in the appropriate size.

For suitable damper gasket material, go to www.mscdirect.com and browse Chapter 9-Raw Materials, Section: Rubber Material, Subsection: Sheets and select the parameters you require - material, thickness, minimum/maximum temp rating, etc... until you find a product that meets your requirements.

Good luck,

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Rico Sapolich
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:01 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: How bad is replacing the heater blower motor?

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Some advice:
1/ Be careful not to lose any of the clips, each one counts and they can all
too easily go boing! and disappear into a black hole.

2/ Plan on replacing the damper gaskets because you will find yours are
history or else they will crumble as you do the work.  I believe these are
available from the dealer or you can do what I did and expend a lot of time
searching for 1/8 inch closed cell foam stock in sheet form.  Replacing the
gaskets makes a noticeable improvement in the heating system.

Rich

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Tim Hannink
Goldibox - 1987 Vanagon Camper, Wolfsburg Edition
Winter Park, Florida
http://home.earthlink.net/~tjhannink/