The following thread remined me of a question I've been wanting to post for some time.
Unknow to me until I pulled it apart, my Series III lower dash has some pretty good rust inside it. As many of you proably know, the Ser III LR heater vent design is to use the entire lower dash inner cavity as an air distrubution box for the heater. Not a bad interms of usable space etc, but if fails miserably since the steel inner structure is not treated to handle all the moistrure that is blown in there and then trapped. This causes perfect rust out conditions. My dash is probably saveable, but I was lucky enought to find a nearly perfect one from another LR owner. So.. I wanted to prevent the newer one from rotting out. I thought I could POR 15 it? I thought I could fiberglass it in. I thought maybe I could run actual ducting to the vents. But now I'm thinking Waxyol may be the best and easiest choice? Would the hardwax hold up to the temperatrure output of my Mt Mansfield heater (82 deg C T'stat) ? or would it melt away and make a mess? Thanks for looking.... Talbot, Southern Maine
Unknow to me until I pulled it apart, my Series III lower dash has some pretty good rust inside it. As many of you proably know, the Ser III LR heater vent design is to use the entire lower dash inner cavity as an air distrubution box for the heater. Not a bad interms of usable space etc, but if fails miserably since the steel inner structure is not treated to handle all the moistrure that is blown in there and then trapped. This causes perfect rust out conditions. My dash is probably saveable, but I was lucky enought to find a nearly perfect one from another LR owner. So.. I wanted to prevent the newer one from rotting out. I thought I could POR 15 it? I thought I could fiberglass it in. I thought maybe I could run actual ducting to the vents. But now I'm thinking Waxyol may be the best and easiest choice? Would the hardwax hold up to the temperatrure output of my Mt Mansfield heater (82 deg C T'stat) ? or would it melt away and make a mess? Thanks for looking.... Talbot, Southern Maine
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