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Old 01-12-2010, 05:07 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Thanks for the ideas and advice!

You mean like the one inch coper pipe insulator for the lower? I can probably snag some of that at menards or home depot, right?
I have seen two sizes for the pipe insulator. The fatter diameter one will squish tighter into the space, but the thinner diameter one may be more appropriate. It just depends on the size of the gap of your grill. Here are some that I have :



Here is the fatter one installed :



I could probably wedge it in farther, but I wanted you to see it in the picture.

I just did the above so that you can see it. In sunny SoCal I mostly don't use it anymore because I am using my spring-mounted grill block. I do have a short fat piece that I put behind my license plate, but that's all I need right now.

What I *should* be doing is adding grille block insulation at night on the cold drive home, and removing it during the warm sunny drive to work.

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