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Subject:Aircooled heater cables
From:Mark L. Hineline
Date:Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:49:36 -0800

Apologies to everyone with WBX and suburu engines. This is about
aircooled -- 1982.

The connections to my flappers are all kinds of wrong. I've read Sean
Bartnik's write-up, I've looked at ETKA, and I've read Bentley. Still
don't know how to put these together correctly or what I need to get.
So here's the set of questions:

First: There are welded brackets on both sides. Currently, on my left
side, the gas return line is routed through a grommet in the flapper
end of the bracket. I assume that's not correct, but who knows?

Second, only the right side has the full schmeer of boot, spring,
bushing, etc. ETKA shows this on the left side only, and Bentley is
ambiguous. Should both sides have the complete boot, spring, bushing,
etc. assembly?

Third, does the assembly mentioned above - on p. 80.4 of Bentley -
route through both ends of the welded bracket? Does the boot fit
between the bracket ends, or to the rear of the rear end?

Fourth, where does the small spring fit into all of this?

Thanks

Mark