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Re: [T3] floor pan rust and more -2nd try!!


I use rubber carpet with the rubber side up... get all your leaks fixed
first... you dont want wet carpet rotting the floor out.

Keith

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Saxton <tcsaxton@earthlink.net>
To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: [T3] floor pan rust and more -2nd try!!


> Second time to try t oget this message answered.
>
> Tim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Saxton" <tcsaxton@earthlink.net>
> To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 4:45 PM
> Subject: floor pan rust and more
>
>
> > I have a ,71 SB and currently am undregoing a partial restore. Here is
> where
> > I am at now and I am needing direction.
> >
> > I have the interior all out and old carpet torn out. When I got this car
> > there was standing water on both sides of the floor.
> >
> > What I have found is a few rust holes in the floor pan. I tore out the
tar
> > board and scraped all the rust out.
> >
> > Questions as follow:
> >
> > 1.) Is there a source for the Oe tar board material?
> >
> > 2.) Is ok to put undercoating>aluminim tape>undercoating to repair the
> rust
> > hole?
> >
> > 3.) If no tar board how about undercoat>sound mat> carpet??
> >
> > 4.) I was wondering where my water leak could be coming from. There
seems
> to
> > be a lot of rust residue coming from the front heater vents on the heat
> > tubes. What does that mean?
> >
> > Tim Saxton
> >
>
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