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09-12-2020, 03:20 PM | #1 |
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Air intake sealer
What do you use for sealer around the freash air intake tube? Looked like old tar that I scraped off. Hard as a rock.
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09-12-2020, 03:54 PM | #2 |
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Re: Air intake sealer
Any good body sealer would work fine.
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09-12-2020, 08:05 PM | #3 |
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Re: Air intake sealer
When I did the body-off-frame resto on both my '55 Fairlane and my '55 Courier, I got a sheet of foam gasket material from local auto store and cut-out gaskets using the bottom flange of those air-intake elbows as a pattern. Then I cut out two more gaskets exactly same for the ducts on the inner fender apron.
After assembling the painted elbows to the painted firewall with the gaskets sandwiched between, I then got a glob of "Duxseal" and smashed a gob over and around the four mounting bolts that hold the elbows to the firewall so water can't get between the bottom of the bolt-head and elbow flange and run down inside the car. You could also use a bathtub caulk or "Vulcan" caulk instead of "Duxseal", but that would be real messy and ugly. |
09-12-2020, 09:55 PM | #4 |
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Re: Air intake sealer
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Those ducts have to be sealed very good, as any water you may drive over, will get drawn into the heater system, and fog up the windows. |
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