I've got seven years of experience scavenging parts from auto wrecking yards and from my experience anything above 83 could have a plastic engine compartment lid but I find Vanagons as late as 87 that have metal lids. I believe that Chris has a boatload of metal engine lids at a very cheap price if you want one (probably less than the UPS to get it to you). In short: you might find about either type depending on who the previous owner was. I've seen several Air Cooled lids with fire signs but I've never seen a WaserBoxer with fire signs. The metal lids are considerably heavier than the plastic lids but I can't tell you the difference in weight, I'd guess steel at 29 pounds and plastic at about 10 pounds. Stan Wilder 83 Air Cooled Westfalia
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:32:02 -0600 andrewbell <andrewbell@QWEST.NET> writes: This thread is a bit confusing... are you guys talking about engine compartment lids? I've never seen a plastic one. AB JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote: all 80-83 non waterboxers had metal lids. all waterboxers had plastic lids. chris [text/html]
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