Date:         Wed, 6 Mar 96 19:43 CST
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         khooper@wsp1.wspice.com (Ken Hooper)
Subject:      Re: [T1] A journey of sight and sound, inside the rear hubs...


>I looked in the Bus Stop catalog and they have two different seals
>listed -- a firewall seal and the main engine seal (2 req'd).  The place I
>was at only had one listed for both spots so I bought two.  It just looks a
>flat piece of rubber -- unless it inflates like a life raft I'm gonna have
>some serious air leaks.

You didn't take it out of the package, right? (Can Hooper draw ASCII art in
Eudora? We shall see!)



                \
  ______________ \__         The rubber splits and fits over both the
  ______________  __         top and bottom of the shrouding.
                 /
                /
        ^         ^
        |         |
        |         |

     engine     seal
       tin


('67s don't have firewalls, Clara? The engines are in the cargo bay? The
split-window Type II must be a primitive beast indeed!)(Any seal that can't
balance a beach ball on its nose is something up with which I will not put,
even if I have to swat the flywheel.)