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Subject:Re: [EDIT] Baffles next to headlamps
From:Chris S.
Date:Mon, 14 May 2012 16:52:22 -0400

I always though they keep the bugs out and block some air so that air will move through the radiator instead of around it. 

Chris.

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Dnia May 14, 2012 o godz. 14:48 Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> napisał(a):

> In addition to the two radiator side baffles and that lower deflector
> baffle, my '84 also has a couple of smaller baffles that go next to the
> headlights.
> 
> What do these two pieces do for a living?
> 
> How do the two smaller baffles mount? They were kinda flopping about
> when I started working on the rad, now that it's time for to re-install
> and I can't figure out where they go? They're kind of chewed up but I
> can find three screw holes on each one, but no matching holes near the
> rad. Anyone got a picture?
> 
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> Bend, Ore.
> 1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
> 1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in
> San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.