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On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:21:48 -0000, Mark Seaton wrote: >I'm not sure how different a '69 is from my '73, but on the later cars this >is one of the worst rust areas of our cars ( along with the c-pillars on the >late fastbacks and the reinforcing panels on the inner front wings :( ) On >mine, the actual 'tray' that the plastic air box bolts to was rusted through >in several places, as was the hump that protrudes into the under bonnet >area. Not only that but the grills below the screen were also rusted through >in places and had been bondo'd up by a po. My solution was to have cut it >all out and weld in a better section from a donor car- I had the pieces from >T3D and had them all prepped up- I was trying to think of a good way to make >the 'tray' detacheable so I could get in there and clean it out properly so >it wouldn't ever happen again. 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. 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