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Funny how not having the engineers communicating with the line wokers can have effects like this- though it won't take much to make the box section drains plug up. Mine were filled with dirt, which at one point had been mud. Salty mud. Ugh. On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:47:56 -0600, Russ Wolfe <russw@classicvw.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 13:35, Constantino Tobio wrote: > > > > > The biggest fault with my Fasty is the fact that it rusts because the > > quality of steel used 30 years ago by everyone was crap. We've come a > > long way since then with better metallurgy and galvanization. About > > the only thing that was VW's fault are those $#@%&! box sections in > > the fenders. > > > > > And if the guy that sprayed the rust proofing hadn't covered the drain > holes in those box section they would have lasted a lot longer. > > -- > > > Russ Wolfe > '71 FB AT > '66 FB MT > '64 T34 (not running) > '65 T1 (not running) > russw@classicvw.org > http://www.classicvw.org > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >