air vent seals

[incisor]

oh wise ones...

whats the best sort of bulkhead air vent seals these days, the foam on the flap style or the old style rubber on the bulkhead style?

[gromit]

Personally I think the old style are better but a few people have commented that the vents are difficult to close initially when using the **itpart seals.

Old style 'look correct'.
Foam gasket stuck on the vent seems a cheaper item to produce (rather than better ?) but aren't always cheaper to buy.....


Colin

[Ozdunc]

I got the bulkhead seals mentioned by Colin above, and had to slice them in half to get them to fit. Even then it needed a fair amount of pressure from the outside to get them to shut.
I glued them on and left them tightly shut for a few months, now the foam has settled into shape it works well.

[S3ute]

oh wise ones...

whats the best sort of bulkhead air vent seals these days, the foam on the flap style or the old style rubber on the bulkhead style?

Hello from Brisbane.

This one is a bit difficult - the originals look better to me, but seem to be fairly hard to get these days, whereas I don't think the stick on units are LR parts and the quality seems to vary from all accounts.

A lot of traffic on the new stick on units seems to suggest that fitting them isn't entirely straight forward with a fair bit of surgery or patience required to close the vents or get a good seal.

I have a set amongst my glory box of parts but have yet to raise the courage to have a go at fitting them - I suspect leaving well enough alone for now will be my likely strategy.

Cheers,

[agrojnr]

I got a run of the mill push on seal from clark rubber when I did mine and they seemed to do the job, just pushed them on the lip of the opening


Adam