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Subject:Re: East coast rust
From:Karl Mullendore
Date:Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:36:05 -0500

As I stated (or meant to!), this was only a quickly 'patch job', it was
only done to get things sealed up for winter travels. Later this year
I'm really hoping to find time to gut the van and restore it correctly.
Or turn it into a guest cottage and start over. :-)

Pascal Giasson wrote:
> Karl,  I see from your picture that you still have some fiberglass
> insulation in there.  I would strongly recommend you replace that with
> something else that does not hold water.  I replaced mine with some
> aluminized bubble wrap type insulation available at Home Depot.  BTW I too
> use Krown or Rust Check very liberally and it's great stuff to stop the
> rusties, but you realy need to take the interior out to realy do a good job.
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> Pascal
> '84 Westy
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