With the Velcro around the vents, do you recommend putting the Velcro around the edge of the vent (on the plastic) or on the van wall (the fiberglass around the vent)?
Dust Proofing your Expanda ?
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I stuck it to the van itself, vents that are low and have the C/plate aorund them as per the OB's are a little harder, i struggled to get the stuff to stick so perhaps for them on the actual vent?
Cheers
Im about to make a "positive pressure" system for our Discovery using a Hilux air filter box and vehicle fan blower. Air will be sucked in through the filter by the fan and blown into the van to pressure it and hopefully keeping dust out. Well thats my plan anyway.
I had that thought myself, i will be interested to see how that goes, let me know!
Cheers
Let us know Moto Mech when you are done and what it looks like. Would be interesting to see it.
Ants
A feature you might want is a remote control or wired switch to activate and deactivate the positive pressure system.
When you are the only one on the road, then activate it and have a vent seal open and fans running, however, if there is someone coming the other way or in front of you kicking up dust, deactivate fans and seal the vent.
Rohan's Idea (patent pending)! I am sure there is a buck to be made here
When you are the only one on the road, then activate it and have a vent seal open and fans running, however, if there is someone coming the other way or in front of you kicking up dust, deactivate fans and seal the vent.
Rohan's Idea (patent pending)! I am sure there is a buck to be made here
Thanks again Cruza. Didnt think of the fridge vents. I was trying to think of how dust could enter the top cupboards.
A feature you might want is a remote control or wired switch to activate and deactivate the positive pressure system.
When you are the only one on the road, then activate it and have a vent seal open and fans running, however, if there is someone coming the other way or in front of you kicking up dust, deactivate fans and seal the vent.
Rohan's Idea (patent pending)! I am sure there is a buck to be made here
Perhaps one of those motion sensitive fridge switches as well?
We have a pressure hatch on the roof (I don't think Jayco fit them now) and these work well as long as the door vent is blocked off.
Pictures below of the fridge covers made from poly carb and small eye bolts that screw into a small hole drilled in the vent right at the back of the cover, the top vent needs the plastic removable part around the exhaust trimmed so the cover fits in flat.
The door one is a piece of acrylic with the same eye bolts.
Christian
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Pictures below of the fridge covers made from poly carb and small eye bolts that screw into a small hole drilled in the vent right at the back of the cover, the top vent needs the plastic removable part around the exhaust trimmed so the cover fits in flat.
The door one is a piece of acrylic with the same eye bolts.
Christian
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a scupper vent works wonders on the roof, great on a car canopy as well
and a trick i use for testing seals is to smear a bit of grease on the seal then close the hatch gently and latch it, when you open it the grease smear shows how well the seal is working. of course then you have to clean the grease off
we replace most leaking seals with a double lip seal, that usually fixes the bugger
and a trick i use for testing seals is to smear a bit of grease on the seal then close the hatch gently and latch it, when you open it the grease smear shows how well the seal is working. of course then you have to clean the grease off
we replace most leaking seals with a double lip seal, that usually fixes the bugger
I haven't got there yet, but I'm copying someone else's idea (from here somewhere) using a pod filter, a 2" bilge blower fan and some 2" duct mounted behind the top fridge vent panel.... early days
They used to use positive air pressure from inside the mid 80's coaches, suck air out of inside the coach thru the floor into luggage compartment to keep dust out of bags. Always seemed to work then so I think same principal would work in van as long as you can get clean air from some where. Barney.
a scupper vent works wonders on the roof, great on a car canopy as well
and a trick i use for testing seals is to smear a bit of grease on the seal then close the hatch gently and latch it, when you open it the grease smear shows how well the seal is working. of course then you have to clean the grease off
we replace most leaking seals with a double lip seal, that usually fixes the bugger
Thanks @DaveS . So a jayco service centre can do this if required. Id be too scared to cut a hole and this way if the tech stuffs it the service centre can pay to fix it..lol. Mite just look up what a scupper vent is. cheers again
just go to e-bay and search dust seal for ute tailgate and there is a store there called autorubbers , sells seals for lots of models, pretty cheap too. BarneyCan anyone tell me how to fix the problem of dust coming into the back of a ute with a canopy? Thanks! Maybe take it to ARB or TJM to fix?
