[FC] Interesting Development - Brake MC

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In a message dated 2/7/2003 10:10:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, jld@wk.net 
writes:

> 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. 

   What those baffles did was to keep the cold air from flowing directly past 
the carburetor and cooling it down thus helping to prevent carb icing.
   Ken Hand