[T3] I miss my Aircooleds in the winter!

[Dave Hall]

Can you introduce a mushroom headed machine screw, maybe with some side
grinding of the head, so it can sandwich the block metal between the screw
head and a large washer and nut outside?  Think of the VW tool to pull out
torsion arm sleeves that goes in at an angle than flattens against the
sleeve.  If the hole is oval, you could put it in sideways and rotate 90
degrees before filling the void with epoxy and tighten up with a 'penny'
washer and nut, holding the spare thread with a locking wrench.  Cut off the
excess thread.

That way you get something that should be able to hold pressure and seal it.

Dave
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Jim Adney
Sent: 22 December 2013 19:46
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] I miss my Aircooleds in the winter!

On 22 Dec 2013 at 12:36, Keith Park wrote:

> I WAS going to plug the hole with epoxy, but the temp changes from 
> -10F to 220F would break the bond between the epoxy and the metal 
> eventually and its not likely to seal

There are flexible forms of epoxy that would be much stronger than RTV, and
yet plenty flexible enough to handle any amount of differential expansion. I
can get some in little packets if you're interested. It's good stuff.

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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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