Doesn't matter if you have a new seal or an old seal, they all make noise.

The thing to do is to remove all of the old herring and salmon from your pop
top then the seals and the noise will disappear.

Around here, the seal noise reaches its peak around March.

Alistair

albell@uvic.ca
'82 Westy, diesel=>I4 gas

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on 24/1/02 7:06 AM, you  wrote:

>> I seem to be having the same problem except mine does not show up until 70+
>> with a headwind.  The noise in my Westy seems to be coming from the leading
>> edge of the roof bin.  Air is pushing under it causing it to flutter at
>> higher speeds.  A new seal could fix the problem, but I'm not sure since
>> it's a little hard to visually confirm from behind the wheel.
>
> I only developed this problem after I put on a new seal.........
>
> Cheers,
>
> Doug Alcock
> '84 Westy "BlueBelle"
> Toronto, Canada
> http://www.torontovanagon.com
>