the little clips on the Shutter Arm

[awhitecat]

one of mine broke when i was taking it off. are they still available new or am i reduced to setting off for the junk yard?







you can see this clip labelled 43 in the above diagram and extract - thanks Vic!

that spring (labelled 21 above) worries me! it's not on mine!

[Steve Arndt]

Yep, junkyard only.
Take all the thermostat parts you can find. Most people are too stupid to use them so you will have to look at a lot of engines to find them intact.

[Bruce2]

If you go to your favourite VW mechanic, he will probably have one in his bin of misc VW fasteners and other bits.

[awhitecat]

i like bruce's suggestion.

[Glenn]

I was at a show Sunday and a vendor had a bunch of them on a wire ring.

[awhitecat]

is pete at p l motors. he is in his late fifties and although he doesn't do much bug work now, worked on them for years. i went to see him and we got one of the clips out of a drawer. he said that there is something else that does the same job and has a name like 'spring coil washer' - not a spring washer obviously. i looked at my local fastner supplier who is good for most of these things but he had never seen them.
i'm ok this time, but................ what happens when the pete's of this world die off?



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i find these clips absolutely painful!

here's how the fan shroud is going together



excuse the grease on dining room table!

[Marc]

...that spring (labelled 21 above) worries me! it's not on mine!

Not a very good representation of it, but that's the coil-type retainer spring that was used on singleport thermostat linkage. You may have seen them around, they look like this:
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp ... D259%2D283

Item 44 was also used to retain the roller on the accelerator pedal on mid`66-up cars, so there was a source for them...but I see that the pedal-repair kits now on the market are coming with the E-clips instead.

There's a third t'stat linkage arrangement not shown, used on later dualports. They dropped the #39 bridges and went to a shorter #41 with two holes in each end that goes directly over the levers on the flap assemblies (similar to the #46 singleport part but with more offset to clear the doghouse cooler). With that style, you only need four retainers (and you can use #21 instead of #43), not six. It's a little less-forgiving of any misalignment than the more complicated arrangement with the bridges.

[awhitecat]

that coil spring thing pictured above looks too long to lock the arm on - the 'rod end' is only about 1/4" or so on one at least......
i'm not sure how the coil spring works.

that Cip1.com site is good. i was looking at their VDO CHT gauges on it the other day.

[Marc]

You can't use the coil-spring on the early dualport linkage - it'll only fit with the late DP or SP cross-link, where there're no bridges and therefore more exposed length of the flap levers.
If all else fails, you could always drill a teensy-tiny hole through the lever and fit a small cotterpin...but I'd probably give the E-clip a try first.