Isn't it? I've cut through one of the late models to clear a diesel
injector, and it was fiberglass all the way as far as I could tell. You
might not have an original.

Jim

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Mudd "Not Jack" Sparrow <rummaging@yahoo.com
> wrote:

> 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
>> >>
>>
>
>