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Subject:Re: one more '66 question (dog-house fan shroud)
Date:Mon, 6 May 1996 23:18:03 -0500

dlytle@as.arizona.edu (Dyer Lytle) writes:
>One more question about my '66 fan shroud.  I'm mounting a dog-house
>cooling system on the engine I'm building and the dog-house shroud has
>a small (mebbe 1/2 inch) pipe sticking out the *top* of the shroud off
>to one side a bit.  This is in addition to the two fresh-air-heating air
>ducts on the *back* (back means back of the car) of the shroud that connect
>to the heat exchangers and the duct on the *front* of the shroud for the oil
>cooler exhaust.  What is this pipe used for?  (I guess this is a good
>question for 1971 bus owners or for 1971 and later sedan owners since that
>was where the dog-house cooling tin was used.)
>
Hey, I was wondering that myself.  When I bought my '71, nothing was hooked
up to it either.  I just plugged it so that air that might be used for
cooling wasn't being released from it, but I'm kind of curious.

Pat Walsh, '71 Westy, walshp@camry.nawc-ad-indy.navy.mil