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