Devon rear heater vent question

[starbiscuit]

Hello all,

Just wondering if anyone has a working Devon interior and can help with how the rear vents work.

Among the junk that came with my bus from the PO was what I think is the original 3/4 width front panel off the rear bench seat.

It has two heater outlet slots on it:

On the back of the board are the metal vents themselves, but no control levers

And on the bus cargo rear floor outlet pipes are these tubes with flaps and operating rod

I plan to take the vents off the board and fit them to a new full-width rock-and-roll bed panel, but my question is: how does someone operate the vents while sitting on the seat?

Am I missing some control levers or ducting?

Does anyone have any pics of how it goes together please?

Thanks for reading

 

[sparkywig]

Here's a couple of pics of different pairs of heater vents, hope this helps.

 

[starbiscuit]

Thanks sparkywig.

The vent horns look very similar, but I definitely don't have those control levers, or metal curved part that the cable runs around.

They seem to be spot-welded to the vent horns and mine don't obviously look like those bits are missing or removed.

The tube with the flap and the cable entry underneath are spot-on, though.

So maybe I am missing a couple of bits of flexible tube and some control lever gubbins?

But also, those vent horns would not fit on the Devon kick-panel because only the narrow rectangular vent goes through the panel and the control levers would be in the way.

Maybe Devon used the same vent horns and flaps but with a different operating lever?

 

[sparkywig]

It looks like Devon modified yours by attaching a rod, sticking that through the kickboard, and using that to open and close the vents by pushing and pulling the rod.

 

[starbiscuit]

There's no way that the control cable would reach the kickboard where I currently have the new one, so I just assumed there's something missing

But I have no idea how close the original was fitted, so that really could be the simplest solution.

I could extend the control cable so it pokes through the kick panel and stick a knob on it and that would do the job.

Thanks for your help