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Subject:Re: That dreaded rust behind the fridge!
From:Zoltan
Date:Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:52:10 -0700

Quite amazing, I must say.
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Wright" <vwdiesels@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 8:40 PM
Subject: That dreaded rust behind the fridge!

>I finally got the kitchen/seat/watertank pulled out of my '88 Westy for the
>first
> time, to get a good look at the seams etc on the hookups. Guess what -
> it's
> way better than I expected! Very little rust around the water/power
> cutouts,
> and not much elsewhere either. I was expecting the worst after finding a
> rust
> bubble that went right through the floor just ahead of the sink drain last
> year.
> It appears this was an isolated bubble starting from the outside, not the
> common prolific cancer from the inside caused by leaking hookups. I will
> seal it all up with POR-15 and count myself lucky! For a 400k km van from
> Ontario, I'm quite amazed how good it looks in there. :-)
>
>
> Shawn Wright
> http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels
> '88 Westy 1.6TD 5 speed
> '85 Jetta Diesel 1.6NA
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