Hour Rule - FIAT 126p Fun Fact!

"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike) 10/31/2019 at 08:24 • Filed to: Hour Rule, Fiat 126, FIAT 126p

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There is a vent flap on the engine cooling tinware on the 126p that you open or close depending on the outside temperature to let more or less heat into the cabin / help warm up the engine quicker! :)

punkgoose17 > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 10/31/2019 at 09:29

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Is there a lever inside, or is that spring the handle; and you have to do it from the engine?

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > punkgoose17 10/31/2019 at 10:18

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That rod with the loop at the end is the handle - there isn’t one inside the car. It’s not really meant to be open or closed often, it’s sortof the equivalent of one of those grill covers you’d put on some diesel trucks or buses in the winter to alter it’s heating and keep the heat in - you sortof ‘set it and forget it’ until it’s time to flip it back open or closed again the same way those diesel grill covers are put on at the start of winter and taken off at the start of Spring.

If I remember right for the 126 flap, you open the flap in the winter so the intake can pull warm air from the engine bay into the intake rather than cooler outside air. You close it in the warmer months so it pulls cooler air in from outside.