It is only on the windshield rubber.

It ain't coolant. Coolant level is fine and I, like 99 and 44/100ths of
the folk on the list, know what coolant smells like.

Rubber-eating bacteria is an unnerving concept. Nothing would be safe,
then. Tires.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
Bend, OR
KG6RCR

On 8/24/2009 1:00 PM Don Spence wrote:

> Mike
>  I had a look at the photos. I can't imagine that is road salt. Two
> possibilities that come to mind are  a coolant leak in the front heater
> core that allows coolant to be blown out of the vents which condenses on
> the glass and runs down to the rubber where it evaporates leaving this
> crusty buildup or some kind of rubber eating bacteria "pooping" as it
> ingests your sealing rubber. Is it only on the windshield rubber?
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> On 24-Aug-09, at 12:42 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
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>> Creepy white/tan powder inside windshield rubber
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