Do you mean buy firewall insulation and rip off the insulation, and cut a piece of a card board and use for the heater box ?
By the way, the cardboard is supposed to be 1/16 inch thick.
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Do you mean buy firewall insulation and rip off the insulation, and cut a piece of a card board and use for the heater box ?
By the way, the cardboard is supposed to be 1/16 inch thick.
Johnny Dart
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I'm saying buy the correct parts for the job you are doing. Its all available.
Thank you. That looks like a good kit.
So, today I have been sanding more under the dash, but not done yet. I will go to Harbor Freight and see if I can find some disks I can use on my drill or Dremel to clean it up even better.
After the sanding I squirted water a little carefully in to the two oval holes under the hood (where the rubber plugs sits). No water in the car. (The vent and heater box is out and in the garage so just two open holes up there). Then I closed the hood, and adjusted the spray gun to like rain, and let it "rain" through the louvres between the windshield and the hood. It ended up being a veary heavy rain, and I let it go for a long time. No water in the car. Dry as when it left Detroit. So, I was pleased with that. If I now can find a degreaser cleaner I can spray in there, let sit for a little and then flush it out. That would be sweet. I had one in Norway called Lensitil, but I don't what would be an equivalent to that here. It worked best on a dry surface. Or maybe the correct would be to say that it worked best if the surface had not been sprayed with water first. Then, after sitting like 15 minutes or so, it could be flushed off with water. And the warmer the water the better. If it needs to be repeated, it is best to let the water evaporate before spraying it on again. It was solvent based.
Anyway, I am so pleased that no water came into the car. I guess I must have gotten all the soil out so nothing came over the edge of the pipe in the cowl.
After the sanding I squirted water a little carefully in to the two oval holes under the hood (where the rubber plugs sits). No water in the car. (The vent and heater box is out and in the garage so just two open holes up there). Then I closed the hood, and adjusted the spray gun to like rain, and let it "rain" through the louvres between the windshield and the hood. It ended up being a veary heavy rain, and I let it go for a long time. No water in the car. Dry as when it left Detroit. So, I was pleased with that. If I now can find a degreaser cleaner I can spray in there, let sit for a little and then flush it out. That would be sweet. I had one in Norway called Lensitil, but I don't what would be an equivalent to that here. It worked best on a dry surface. Or maybe the correct would be to say that it worked best if the surface had not been sprayed with water first. Then, after sitting like 15 minutes or so, it could be flushed off with water. And the warmer the water the better. If it needs to be repeated, it is best to let the water evaporate before spraying it on again. It was solvent based.
Anyway, I am so pleased that no water came into the car. I guess I must have gotten all the soil out so nothing came over the edge of the pipe in the cowl.
Yesterday I found something that was supposed to be a good cleaner / degreaser. It might be good for something, I don't know. But it was not good at cleaning. It did not clean anything at all. I think it was called Oil Eater or something.
They claimed it was industrial strength. Yeah, right!
They claimed it was industrial strength. Yeah, right!
Well, it is a long time since I posted anything here. Not going into details now about why, but it has not been anything to post. More or less.
Anyway, last weekend I had a very bad leak from my gas tank, in 110 degrees. It smelled gas, and my wife told me to move my car out in the street. I am glad nothing happened, because if it had caught fire I would have been without a car, and we would have been without a home too.
It was a big pond under the gas tank, and I did not see it until I had started and backed my car enough to see the pond under where the gas tank was.
The reason for the leak was a plugged vent tube under the car. I got good help from you guys in the fuel forum. I did not realize the thin tube in the trunk went out outside the gas tank. It looked to me, from inside that it went back inside the tank, and I thought this was to help with filling the gas. Anyway, I blew it up with compressed air, I took the hose off where it sits on the filler neck, and tightened it around my air gun, and just gave it full pressure and whatever plugged the tube came out with a loud bang.
Here is a picture of the gas cap, that is non vented, and supposed to be non vented. I have replaced the rubber gasket / seal. I used 1/16" nitrile rubber sheet for that. And I have a lot left of it. I was thinking about cutting some pieces of the roll and put up for sale on ebay if anyone was interested. But never got around to it.
I have also messed with this other problem I had last fall / winter, water coming into the car from the cowl. I have just a week ago or something like that sprayed EvapoRust gel inside the cowl, and then after a while flushed it out with fresh water, and it is now quite nice in there. Then came all this wildfire crap and stopped me from continuing with that project.
During the winter I also ended up buying a small bench metal lathe in pieces, so I have been messing with that too. But, hopefully I will get something into the cowl to stop it from rusting more, and then I can go on with the stuff inside the car, heater box and so forth.
Bill
Anyway, last weekend I had a very bad leak from my gas tank, in 110 degrees. It smelled gas, and my wife told me to move my car out in the street. I am glad nothing happened, because if it had caught fire I would have been without a car, and we would have been without a home too.
It was a big pond under the gas tank, and I did not see it until I had started and backed my car enough to see the pond under where the gas tank was.
The reason for the leak was a plugged vent tube under the car. I got good help from you guys in the fuel forum. I did not realize the thin tube in the trunk went out outside the gas tank. It looked to me, from inside that it went back inside the tank, and I thought this was to help with filling the gas. Anyway, I blew it up with compressed air, I took the hose off where it sits on the filler neck, and tightened it around my air gun, and just gave it full pressure and whatever plugged the tube came out with a loud bang.
Here is a picture of the gas cap, that is non vented, and supposed to be non vented. I have replaced the rubber gasket / seal. I used 1/16" nitrile rubber sheet for that. And I have a lot left of it. I was thinking about cutting some pieces of the roll and put up for sale on ebay if anyone was interested. But never got around to it.
I have also messed with this other problem I had last fall / winter, water coming into the car from the cowl. I have just a week ago or something like that sprayed EvapoRust gel inside the cowl, and then after a while flushed it out with fresh water, and it is now quite nice in there. Then came all this wildfire crap and stopped me from continuing with that project.
During the winter I also ended up buying a small bench metal lathe in pieces, so I have been messing with that too. But, hopefully I will get something into the cowl to stop it from rusting more, and then I can go on with the stuff inside the car, heater box and so forth.
Bill
Dartsun
Mopar Dude
Glad to see an update, hope all is well and your safe from fires. Dustin
Hey Bill. Glad to see you starting back on the car.
Howdy. Well, I need my little lathe too up and running for making some parts for the car. But, it will come, a little by little. I also changed oil for the first time, but I did not have a socket to replace the oil lamp sender which is not working. Went to town, but no one had it. Probably need to order it. (1 1/16" 6 point socket).
Bill
Yesterday I sprayed Owatrol oil into the entire cowl. I thought it maybe would take days to dry, but it is dry already. The heat is obviously helping compared to like 50-60 degrees.
Some of the oil had been dripping out on the concrete under the car, so I need to wire brush that off. Other than that everything looks fine.
The Evapo-Rust "paste" has worked fine, and I hope it will not rust anymore. But, I think I will go to Home Depot and get a blueish, greyish kind of Rustoleum to spray on top of the Owatrol oil. If I can find it.
Some of the oil had been dripping out on the concrete under the car, so I need to wire brush that off. Other than that everything looks fine.
The Evapo-Rust "paste" has worked fine, and I hope it will not rust anymore. But, I think I will go to Home Depot and get a blueish, greyish kind of Rustoleum to spray on top of the Owatrol oil. If I can find it.
I have been slow. The Owatrol oil did not fix the leak, and after a long time, wondering what to do, and what not to. Even considering selling the car, I sprayed some undercoating into the cowl. Still leaking. More frustration, and even closer to giving up. But, like a week ago or maybe a bit more, I managed to stick a brand new spray can with Rustoleum Undercoating up from the inside of the car, and spray it over the edge of the pipe in the cowl. Now I have sprayed quite a bit of water in, and just let it run, and it did not come any water into the car anymore. I must have hit the hole and plugged it.
So, it means I can start thinking about going forward with other things, a little by little.
Hopefully it may come more updates more often.
So, it means I can start thinking about going forward with other things, a little by little.
Hopefully it may come more updates more often.
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