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On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:50:52 -0600, Jim Adney wrote: >On 20 Mar 2003 at 15:47, Mark Healey wrote: > >> I saw a web site where someone had cut a hole in the hump. What I'm >> planning to do is find a donor car at the junkyard and cut out a >> section of the hump to use as a bolt on cover for the hole I'm >> probably going to cut in my hump to clean out what is in there. > >For the later cars, like yours, it really isn't all that hard to clean out that >volume by reaching up there when the airbox is removed. I realize that this is >a bit of work to get to, but if you do it when you've already goe some of the >other stuff out of the way it really isn't all that much work. > >I'd really hate to see someone cut out perfectly good sheet metal and leave >behind a cut seam that will start to rust quickly. I really don't think doing >this the "hard" way will take any longer than cutting and fitting a cover. > If cleaning were the only issue I'd probably go along with what you say, but I can think of no other way to get in there to sand away rust, prime and paint the metal. Mark Healey 71 FI auto square 71 FI manual square marksvw@healeyonline.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org