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Subject:Re: air cooled rear hatch ...
From:Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow
Date:Fri, 3 Apr 2015 07:23:55 -0700

I've never cut through it.

Maybe I'll do that for the double engine project.

> On Apr 3, 2015, at 7:22 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>>> >>
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