Hi guys..anyone know where I can get a gasket which goes around the outside flange of the heater box-to-firewall?? for my '63
Any sources or part numbers would be appreciated
I have successfully removed the old leaking heater core and installed a new one.....but need a gasket before I can push the main heater box back up to the firewall
We/I used it for lots of stuff. The old guys, when I first started, use to call it dum-dum! (don't know why) Maybe that was the name of it years back?
It is plyable, probably half the size round as a pencil and just lay it on the part to be assembled, such as your heater box... It has many applications!
-- Edited by 67Poncho on Thursday 29th of December 2011 10:47:24 PM
Thanks for the 3M part number..we handle all 3M stuff at CARQUEST in Oshawa..so I'll get some.
My grandfather and father who worked in the GM Oshawa Car Plant in the 50's and '60's always talked about "DUM-DUM". There was always 4 or 5 rolls of this stuff around the house. My mother said there was a big roll around our house somewhere....after all those years who wudda guessed?
Thanks for the 3M part number..we handle all 3M stuff at CARQUEST in Oshawa..so I'll get some.
My grandfather and father who worked in the GM Oshawa Car Plant in the 50's and '60's always talked about "DUM-DUM". There was always 4 or 5 rolls of this stuff around the house. My mother said there was a big roll around our house somewhere....after all those years who wudda guessed?
Ron
Well, guess DUM-DUM is the universal nick-name for this stuff from Newfoundland/Labrador to Saskatchewan at least!!!
vincejr ya I guess it doesn't take any brains to use this stuff.I think I'll talk to my aunt who is 90 yrs old. She worked in the GM Oshawa Fabrication plant from 1939 until the eighties.
The GM FAB plant had a rich history of producing "heavy WWII trucks during the war to wooden wings for the DeHaviland Mosquito bomber.
My 1937 McLaughlin-Buick was made in the Fab plant. all the body and sheet metal was stamped, interiors sewn in the sewing room and painted and assembled right in downtown Oshawa. The straight 8 engines were made by Buick in Flint Mich
I'm about to do my heater core as well. But I'm literally on a shoe-string budget with my car and the info that 67Poncho listed shows the price for the stuff at around $30. Since I'm not doing a show car but a 20-footer couldn't I just use a silicone type sealer to make a bead where the caulking strip would go?
-- Edited by meowy84 on Monday 23rd of September 2013 11:13:04 PM
You could get some butyl tape from a glass / bodyshop for this as well. It comes in various sizes...just warm it up put it place on the firewall peel the paper and install the cover! Can't say that it's "period correct" though....