{"id":631,"date":"2012-02-26T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-12T04:35:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T04:35:38","slug":"verified-cowl-to-plenum-cleara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2012\/02\/26\/verified-cowl-to-plenum-cleara\/","title":{"rendered":"Verified Cowl to Plenum Clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to ensure that there is sufficient clearance between the cowl and the plenum across the entire plenum. \u00a0I came up with the idea of placing blobs of something on top of the plenum and then installing the top cowl. \u00a0I wanted something that would deform pretty easily so that it wouldn&#8217;t deflect the plenum, but stiff enough that it will stand up\u00a0by itself\u00a0without sagging. \u00a0My wife suggested a product called Moon Dough that my son had. \u00a0This worked perfectly. \u00a0It deforms with practically zero pressure, but won&#8217;t move on it&#8217;s on. \u00a0As you can see, the blobs flattened down nicely and perfectly reveal the clearance at each point. \u00a0I measured all of these, and they&#8217;re all very close to 1\/2&#8243;. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to trim the baffles down another 1\/8&#8243;, but the thickness of the plenum and the screw heads will eat up some of the clearance. \u00a0I should end up with at least 3\/8&#8243; all the way around.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20120226\/IMG_0235.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0235-3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to ensure that there is sufficient clearance between the cowl and the plenum across the entire plenum. \u00a0I came up with the idea of placing blobs of something on top of the plenum and then installing the top cowl. \u00a0I wanted something that would deform pretty easily so that it wouldn&#8217;t deflect the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2012\/02\/26\/verified-cowl-to-plenum-cleara\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3358,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/3358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}