68-72 side step to bumper blade rubber/plastic piece

[vistacruzer]

Anyone know if someone is selling new ones? Not the step the piece that goes between the blade and the metal step.

[asiab3]

These pieces?

http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/cart/Detai ... =211707291

[vistacruzer]

No the ones i'm looking for are for the front 3 piece bumper between the pieces that the rubber step goes onto and the center bumper blade. But thanks for the effort.

[asiab3]

Ah, I read your post as "not the strip but the step." These guys?

http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/cart/Detai ... 211707197a

[vistacruzer]

My blond yes I did not see them as the ones I was looking for. But they are! I was thinking that it was a molded part no mine are so old that they are brittle and un moving. Thanks a bunch!

[hambone]

So many former rubber parts become solid after 45 years...I'm always amazed.
Hey did you know there are supposed to be little rubber plugs underneath the air cleaner on early Bays? I had no idea...

[asiab3]

So many former rubber parts become solid after 45 years...I'm always amazed.
Hey did you know there are supposed to be little rubber plugs underneath the air cleaner on early Bays? I had no idea...

What?!? Where? I'm excited!

Do you have the rubber bump-stops on your T1 engine flaps?

[71whitewesty]

Now Robbie, are you sure you don't have that little rubber bumper in backwards?
I only ask because I'm putting my flaps in now and am using the best two I have, both from separate engines and the rubber bumper is in the other way, so the flat part of the bumper hits the metal tab. I read your post before doing mine and made sure I had the rubber pieces in there too.
Ok now if I'm right, pull that motor and turn them around!

[asiab3]

...are you sure you don't have that little rubber bumper in backwards?

If you're right I will pull my shorts and eat my engine. Wait. Reverse those.

I vaguely remember my junkyard flaps having the bumps on the way in the picture. I made the judgement call to put them in that way so a small amount of air can bypass the flaps to warm up the thermostat.

[71whitewesty]

...are you sure you don't have that little rubber bumper in backwards?

If you're right I will pull my shorts and eat my engine. Wait. Reverse those.

I vaguely remember my junkyard flaps having the bumps on the way in the picture. I made the judgement call to put them in that way so a small amount of air can bypass the flaps to warm up the thermostat.

It made perfect sense to me when I read your post. The way mine are in keep them just barely open. I'm sure they are original and they are hard as rocks! FWIW the way mine are, they seat well on the metal tab too.

[vistacruzer]

They look like the rubbers for the gas cap door on early bays

[asiab3]

They look like the rubbers for the gas cap door on early bays

VERY similar. I'm not sure if they're the same part, but when I tried them on my filler door, they didn't quite reach the door unless the door was over-extended in the closed position. That's why I had extras for my fan shroud. :) Wolfsburg West lists different part numbers for each, and when I ordered the proper fuel door ones, they were longer with the same diameter. The ones I used in the fan shroud are:

https://www.wolfsburgwest.com/cart/Deta ... ID=n200223

Gas door bumpers:

http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/cart/Detai ... =111857145

Colin, you mentioned in Chloe's emergency engine teardown thread, (before you found the FI valves,) that you aligned the fan blades for synchronicity, and allowed them to open a crack to warm up the thermostat. Do you think that the bumpers were installed my way to allow for it? Or do you think they were backwards to allow maximum closing of the flaps?

Robbie

[Amskeptic]

Colin, you mentioned in Chloe's emergency engine teardown thread that you aligned the flap blades for synchronicity, and allowed them to remain open a crack in the closed position to warm up the thermostat. Do you think that the bumpers were installed my way to allow for it? Or do you think they were backwards to allow maximum closing of the flaps?

Robbie

"Backwards" and "my way" are not half so descriptive enough to the vast readership that plagues this forum in search of accurate and concise information. On mine, the flat end of the rubber bumper made business contact.
So yours are indeed upside down because you were so enamored of the idea that the flaps had to be open a little bit . . . but only a little bit.
Colin