hoover bit?

just looking on you tube, an some guy mentions a bit of tin ware that fits on the oils cooler....called a hoover bit

....which I've not got

how important is it and do I need it?....and can you buy them new?

.....I suspect davidoft has got some in his garage

 

I may have though I thought the Hoover bit was a different bit

 

Mines missing aswell

 

thats the bit

....dont recall seeing it listed in any of the usual suppliers .....only heard about it from some guy on you tube

 

i have one on mine but i cant see what it does that's so important
it looks like it just spaces the cover off and gives it somewhere to fix to

 

Air will always try and go by the path of least resistance, and the hoover bit seals around the bottom of the oil cooler to stop the air just going out the bottom of the cooler, rather than through it. Over the years the lazy "I know better, we don't need that bit" brigade left them off.

 

If it's not there, cooling air gushes down past the oil cooler. Best to have it. Deimos air-cooled sell repro versions.

edit: or you can make your own - there's a drawing on ratwell.

 

BB beat me to it . Over the years, half-arsed mechanics chucked them away.

 

It will create air flow / draw by th looks of it, Venturi esqu

 

i just ordered one from deimos air cooled, £25, good kit

 

Brilliant- somebody else found Dale Mueller's picture-I could barely read it either, but also made a version. That looks good though

 

£25 Ouch

 

£25 is a bit steep . Easy to make out of ally angle strip - para's pic is perfect . Never seen one that clear before. Make one! (Or half your oil cooler air will just fall out the bottom of the doghouse).

 

yes, but it would seem now that everything is mega epensive, i dont have the skills to fabricate, and it would have cost more than £25 in my time, plus materials as i dont have any sheet metal kicking around, plus with the million other jobs i have to do to get my bus going this summer i though feck it

 

plus it was the only place i could find them forsale, if i had the skills, i would make a batch

 

Don't fret. If you need it, you need it . I'm sure they used to be about a tenner, though (and made by a Canadian bloke in his shed).

 

cheers guys

....make or buy

....make is cheaper but I'd also end up powder coating, and the time it would take me to make.........

 

Rabbit?

 

pmsl

.....I'm off work this week though !!!! doh!