The older, air-cooled and diesel engine lids are all steel, not plastic. Except for the sound deadener which looks like coir. When I first read the post, I thought the request was for an engine lid "hatch" but it was for the rear door hatch. Jim On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Mudd "Not Jack" Sparrow <rummaging@yahoo.com > wrote: > Steel hatch? > > What part exactly is steel? > > > > On Apr 3, 2015, at 5:05 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > > > Look at diesel hatches. they are steel, if that's what you want. A lot of > > people have swapped them out for plastic hatches because the steels are > so > > heavy and the fire protection aspect is more or less wasted on a diesel. > > > > Jim > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:29 AM, John Dillon <johndillon@johndillon.com> > > wrote: > > > >> still looking for the rear hatch for an air cooled vanagon … hopefully > in > >> Ontario or close … anyone have such a creature? > >> > >> jdd > >> > |
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