Door Seals

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hambone
Post-Industrial Non-Secular Mennonite
Location: Portland, Ore.
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Post by hambone » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:42 am

Mine doesn't leak thanks to a "homemade" seal of weird tape and some sort of silicone like goo, bonded to the original rubber. Looks kind of crappy but works. It's taken me 3 years to remove most of the other P.O. "fixes", boy he sure had some crazy ideas in order to save a nickel. Most of them did not work. He actually fabricated a strange cloth and wood framed divider between the front and rear, separated by a door made of thick paperboard. It didn't look bad, just extremely odd. And huge speaker cabinets were mounted behind the divider, of course only held on by a couple tiny sheet metal screws, can you say "decapitation"?? Those were the first to go.

vdubyah73
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Post by vdubyah73 » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:40 am

Some kind of wall or curtain behind the front seats is common here in New England. Keeps all the heat up front.

Bill

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Randy in Maine
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Location: Old Orchard Beach, Maine
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Post by Randy in Maine » Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:01 am

vdubyah73 wrote:Front vents closed but leaking, no seals . Ok that is on my good heat to do list any way. I'll give that a try. Was just gonna try hardware store weather strip on it.

Bill

Bill I used some 1/2" thick foam from Home Depot that fixed it. It was actually some of that interlocking foam that you stand on when using your table saw in the winter. I cleaned, lubricatted, and re-painted all of that in there since I was there. No leakage now.
79 VW Bus

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