Skip to main content
Gerry | Vanagon
Checking account...
← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum
Subject:Re: air cooled rear hatch ...
From:Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow
Date:Fri, 3 Apr 2015 07:20:37 -0700

My 91 engine lid is plastic?

> On Apr 3, 2015, at 7:17 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> >>
>