[FC] SOUND DEADENER COMES UNGLUED

[Vairtec Corporation]

At 09:22 PM 10/7/2010, N2VZD at aol.com wrote:

>i have removed a cardboard tar like stuff from a 64 van (Beatrice) last
>winter , that stuff was blocking more than half of the openings. the factory
>yellow glue failed. it was a sound deadener material of some sort. i think
>this  may have been the partial cause of headgasket failure on a @24,000 mile
>  vehicle.
>time to check it out?.
>regards, tim colson


It is indeed a sound-deadener/insulation found in all Greenbriers and 
Corvans, but not pickups.  I first observed it having detached itself 
and blocking the air passages in my Greenbrier at least 25 years ago, 
and so I removed it from that van and every other one I have owned since.

--Bob Marlow