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Date:         Tue, 20 Aug 2002 03:49:01 +0100
Reply-To:     Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
Subject:      Re: replacement of fresh air fan
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Could you be a little more specific on the rubber roofing material. What do
roofers use this for
Thanks


Clive
'88 Syncro


----- Original Message -----
From: "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: replacement of fresh air fan




> Don't use foam for those seals. It decomposes in a decade or so. Use
> rubber roofing material. Talk to a roofer, he'll get you some. Easy to
> cut, lasts forever, seals up tight.
>
>
> Developing business and guiding change since 1996,
>
> G. Matthew Bulley
> Bulley-Hewlett
> Marketing & Communications
> Business: www.bulley-hewlett.com
> AIM = IExplain4u
> Phone: +1.919.658.1278
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
> Of Dan Erlandson
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 6:28 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: replacement of fresh air fan
>
> Well last spring  the fresh air fan was shot and smoking so I pulled out
> the
> dashboard on the 91 GL this afternoon and got the fresh air fan out
> (tough
> going on breaking apart those 18 plastic "welds".  My replacement from
> VW
> didn't come with any "weatherstripping" so I was going to head to Home
> Depot
> and look at what they had that I could use.  Additionally I noticed that
> alot of the flaps in the heater/freah air  box have deteriorated foam
> seals.
> The seal looks like the foam stuff they use at times as an air
> conditioner
> filter.  Thought I might try to glue some into place and get the best
> possible seal I could.  Any experience in this area?  Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
>
> -- Dan Erlandson
> Flemington, NJ
> > danoer1@eclipse.net
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