Date:         Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:05:37 -0700
Reply-To:     jbclem1 <jbclem1@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         jbclem1 <jbclem1@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Worst thing you ever did to your Vanagon?
Comments: To: tabe johnson <xtabe@yahoo.com>
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My poptop seal was sagging so I thought I'd try to glue it back in place.  I pulled out the 3M
Weatherstriping cement and applied it liberally.  It didn't help the sag for more than a week and a
month later the pop top looked uglier than before because now there was this congealed hardened
cement all over the edge of the poptop.  I tried to wash it off, tried to rub it off with a rag and
gasoline, tried to scrape it off...nada!.  Went to a hardware store and bought the special 3M
solvent for weatherstriping cement...nada again,seemed to disolve only  the outer .001 of the
cement.  I could see that it would take 10 hours of elbow grease and many containers of this $8
miracle solvent.  I tried rubbing compound, seemed to work but there would also be alot of elbow
grease involved.  Finally I pulled out my dremel with the small sanding cylinders and this did the
job.  It's awkward and slow,  scuffs the poptop material abit, but it works...I'm doing 1-2 foot
sections at a time and eventually will be back to the point where I can replace the damn poptop seal
which is what I should have done from the start.

jb



----- Original Message -----
From: "tabe johnson" <xtabe@yahoo.com>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 9:28 PM
Subject: Worst thing you ever did to your Vanagon?


> Here's another interesting one:  What's the
> worst thing you ever did to your Vanagon?  I'm
> thinking maintenance/repairs but I guess high
> centering it would qualify...
>
> I'm still trying to decide what the worst thing
> I ever did was.  There are so many choices!
>
>
> tabe johnson/87 westy
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