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| | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 50 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 50 | My truck is completly stock and in pretty good shape and I want to keep it that way. In the engine compartment there is some black calking between the fender parts and the cab. On one side a lot of it is gone. What is this stuff? Does it come in or can it be applied with a calking gun?
Lee | | | | | Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,887 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,887 | not sure just what you're seeing Lee, but the only thing shown in the assembly manual for that area is rubber antisqueak pieces - after decades of exposure to the fumes and heat it might start looking like some sort of tar, but originally it was what the vendors supply [FP804], or real close - a channel shape that goes on the back of the inner fender, a short piece that goes at the top of the fender where it's against the cowl, and a longer strip that goes where the fender and inner bolt together at the top .... there's also a flap 'stapled' to the bottom of the inner that isn't available Bill | | | | | Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 35 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 35 | Bill,
I'm addressing the same question as Lee (they do kind of look like dried-up tar caulking). Are those anti-squeak channel-shaped pieces glued on the edge of the inner fenders? On mine, I'm seeing some staples along that edge also, which may have held it, but I don't have a staple gun that can do that!
For the bottom "flap", is there a recommended substitute for that area or something you'd recommend fabricating? Was it just a rubber skirt that covered the opening but which didn't act as a buffer?
Thanks for your input,
Steve | | | | | Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,887 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,887 | the ones at the back of the inner may have been glued, and the glue reacting with the different composition of rubber back then may be why they wind up looking tarry from the heat - and the assembly manual shows staples [my 58 didn't have them], but the only place the staples are really needed is the piece across the bottom that covers the gap between the inner and frame, which reduces road spray into the engine compartment ... I've just left those off where they're missing, but some folks manually replace staples, which I wouldn't expect to last long unless you can work out something of stainless .... you could just use sheet rubber for there, or something like truck inner tubes cut to suit, I haven't seen those reproduced
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