The older, air-cooled and diesel engine lids are all steel, not plastic.
Except for the sound deadener which looks like coir. When I first read the
post, I thought the request was for an engine lid "hatch" but it was for
the rear door hatch.

Jim

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Mudd "Not Jack" Sparrow <rummaging@yahoo.com
> wrote:

> Steel hatch?
>
> What part exactly is steel?
>
>
> > On Apr 3, 2015, at 5:05 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Look at diesel hatches. they are steel, if that's what you want. A lot of
> > people have swapped them out for plastic hatches because the steels are
> so
> > heavy and the fire protection aspect is more or less wasted on a diesel.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:29 AM, John Dillon <johndillon@johndillon.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> still looking for the rear hatch for an air cooled vanagon … hopefully
> in
> >> Ontario or close … anyone have such a creature?
> >>
> >> jdd
> >>
>