Re: Rad Repair

["Bill Thebert" <bthebert@domain.elided>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Mandera <tsm1@domain.elided>
To: Daniel Nees <cookiedan@domain.elided>

>In any manner, I suppose a brace from one side to the other would be a good
>idea then...

Tom:

I think there *is* a brace between the two inner fenders -- namely, that
cross-piece to which the hood hinges are mounted.  It's awfully heavy
material.

For this reason, I suspect that the inner fenders are flexing *neither* "in"
nor "out" -- but rather, that the front clip is "racking" in parallelogram
fashion, and thus stressing the tube-to-tank connections.  It would take an
angled brace -- from the upper corner on one side to the lower corner on the
other -- to prevent this racking action from occuring.  Said brace would
need to withstand both tension *and* compression forces.

Simpler might be just to better "isolate" the radiator -- perhaps with
rubber bushings at the mount points -- from any movements of the inner
fenders.

Bill Thebert
The Binder Bulletin