[FC] Interesting Development - Brake MC

[James Davis]

Yep.  When I was driving the Rampside 30 miles to school everyday, I often 
got carb icing.  In 1995, I took a Rampside apart for parts that still had 
the baffles installed.  I ask everyone I knew if they had a clue of what 
they did.  The best guess I heard was to keep water out of the engine 
compartment.  Being a "try it and see what happens", type guy I put them 
in.  Even with with no engine heat from the left side (two oil coolers), I 
have not had a carb icing problem since.  I guess the GM engineers new what 
they were doing.
Jim Davis

.At 09:03 PM 2/6/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Jim Davis wrote:
>
>For instance on 12-30-60 the engine compartment side rail
> > baffles were approved for installation.
> > Jim Davis
> >
>       Many years ago I found out what these baffles were for.
>          Diane had gone to Northern California on her annual Christmas tree
>run. I had to stay home and work. She called me from Mt. Shasta City, said
>the GB was running badly. No power. I said "start it and let me hear it run"
>(my hearing was better in those days). I could hear it on the phone, sounded
>OK. She said it is OK now. She went on. Later I figured it was icing.
>         Then, the thought struck me, the baffles. They are to mix the cold
>incoming air with the warm air from the engine.  Put the baffles in, never
>happened again.
>
>         Bob
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