Ferrari Mailing List: Re: While I'm there, might as well......

[Douglas Anderson (dnt]

Good looking Michael

 

Drat – while this wonderful note may be a tad late . . . one of these days I suggest you get under that yellow fiber glass panel that’s pop riveted into place. 

 

Why get under there?  Cause under it may be a little shop of horrors.

 

That is if EVER you dare drive your horse in the moisture.  Not that you would in the deserts of Vancouver B.C. where it NEVER rains.

 

Why again?  Tail light seal failure even just ever so slight. 

 

Tail end is a low pressure area and the trunk is even a lower pressure area.  So?  So water is pulled (actually pushed – no such thing as “suction” unless you’ve done 6 months at Ft. Sill OK) past the tail lights and into the aged trunk, finding the lowest spot (under the yellow cover), sits in the fiber glass blanket and happily continues to rot out the thin gauge metal between the square tube frame, wheel well, and muffler area. 

 

What to use to replace blanket?  Ceramic kiln blanket material.  https://www.unifrax.com/product-category/blankets/ 

 

No need to thank me – just doing my job against rusted out 308’s.  Just know – our early raw steel frames were put together rusted, covered, painted, passed and sold.

 

The other two areas back in the trunk are the 12 x 12 sunken areas the left and right of the ever great job you did on the fiber gall  No need to pull it off the yellow fiber glass cover – just find the indentation, cut a nice hole, drill out the pop rivets lift off cover and fix, if you have to, any rusted out areas.  OR get under the car and check integrity of the “box” between the under frame panel and yellow fiberglass.  Muffler usually in the way.

 

Onward – nice job tho.

Doug

 

Michel says

I finished all insulation inside the cockpit. Loved it so much, I decided to do the trunk. This is what I did today. Trunk is much simpler than the interior. My antenna hasn’t worked in 2 years. So, I also decided to take it out to try to fix it. That’s next weekend. Anybody has any suggestion about the antenna ? Taking it out and fixing it.

 

Michael Savard (1981 308 GTSi)