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    Wow the VF3 Drain holes for coolant get clogged up!

    on a 1998 vf3 , the coolant holes leading to the pump, are always getting blocked by chips. What a poor design. I am thinking about making a diverter to keep the holes open by keeping chips flowing away from them.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocko1 View Post
    on a 1998 vf3 , the coolant holes leading to the pump, are always getting blocked by chips. What a poor design. I am thinking about making a diverter to keep the holes open by keeping chips flowing away from them.
    someone came up with the Haas chipanator it a simple device that uses the chip auger. You'll have to look through some of the old threads on this site to find it


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    Hailin Haas, thanks for the name. I found a video on youtube of it actually working: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Rnym4lYzU"]YouTube - chipinator
    I am currently working on a fix that will cost $35.00 max. I wonder what kind of market there would be for an inexpensive fix.


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    Take a poll on here


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    I made my own chipinator like thing with uhmw and nylon. Took probably an hr. to make and works great.


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