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Thank god. Thought we were getting a bit on the boring sideNowt like a hand job.... There it was stated
Dumb question - P38 through carwash?
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brianp38dse
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Gutter minds, all this stuff about hand jobs and flanges 
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I'm not bending your flange for you!! Do it yerself!!Gutter minds, all this stuff about hand jobs and flanges
norseman
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Still a few around in this part of Essex, prefer the hand wash method myself & avoid jet washes like the plague
P38 Monkey
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Just trying to work out which trim piece on the tailgate needs bending. The tailgate on my P38 has a squashy neoprene tube all the way round the outside and a corresponding flat track on the two parts of the tailgate. There is also a neoprene tube between the two halves of the tailgate.
Looks good enough to seal out water all the way down to the Titanic.
Never had a drop of water inside the boot or spare wheel well.
Anyone got a photo of the bit that needs bending??
Looks good enough to seal out water all the way down to the Titanic.
Never had a drop of water inside the boot or spare wheel well.
Anyone got a photo of the bit that needs bending??
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Leave well alone then
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Good point, if it's always been dry then no need to adjust the seal lip
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+1^^^^^^^^^^^^^Good point, if it's always been dry then no need to adjust the seal lip
P38 Monkey
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Message received and understood. I didn't want to see the Titanic anyway...
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As others have said, leave well alone. But if you did need to adjust, you pull the neoprene seal tube off and bend the flange on which it locates 5mm outwards then refit the seal
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Struggling to find the scuttle drains - got a picture or diagram etc? Many thanks....
Datatek
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Hard to see, they are at each end.
P38 Monkey
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I can’t see any drains, it would really help to know what I am looking for, at each end. The ends of the scuttle are obscured on my P38, underneath several layers of metal.
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I think you will only see them with an endoscope. I just poked about with a bit of stiff wire. A watering can full of water will provide a good test.
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They are under the metal work for the pollen filters, there is a gap right next to the inner wing and they are just under there. The best thing to do is to pull the inner wing plastic guards out and pull the rubber tubes off. The duck bill fills up with crap and blocks completely. Having no tubes reduces the risk of blocking and also having the foam replaced or doing a light mesh grill replacement.
P38 Monkey
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Thanks - very useful info. I have done the mesh replacement so presumably the old rotted foam is now residing in the tubes, held in place by the duckbills....They are under the metal work for the pollen filters, there is a gap right next to the inner wing and they are just under there. The best thing to do is to pull the inner wing plastic guards out and pull the rubber tubes off. The duck bill fills up with crap and blocks completely. Having no tubes reduces the risk of blocking and also having the foam replaced or doing a light mesh grill replacement.
Duck bills on tubes, the favourite design option, are OK off the production line when everything is nice and clean...
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Midwives make good P38 owners...
