Europa TCST

[TurboFource]

Small progress this week …. 

Made a “seal”  for lower radiator hose to body …. Some other misc.

[Cheguava]

Small progress this week …. 

Made a “seal”  for lower radiator hose to body …. Some other misc.

Is the seal standard fitment, or because of the issues you had lining up the hose mentioned in your previous post? Or alternatively, there's no seal but there should be?

Feel your pain on the seat pans - mine had also rusted but not as badly as yours.

[TurboFource]

Not sure...just thought it should be sealed to try get all the air to go through the radiator ...

[BDA]

Sealing that is a good idea. Apparently, there can be hot air "backwashed" from the radiator that can find its way into the cabin via the backbone. My car also had a slab of foam rubber that lived under the elbow pad. I realized that one purpose of that is also to keep hot air in the backbone from coming into the cabin.

[Kendo]

Turbo, what material did you use for that hose seal? I want to make some, too.

[TurboFource]

Kendo,
It is the same 1/4” closed cell adhesive backed neoprene foam I bought off Amazon
to use for the chassis insulation …. I made a “seal” for my steering shaft with it too.

[GavinT]

Sealing that is a good idea. Apparently, there can be hot air "backwashed" from the radiator that can find its way into the cabin via the backbone. My car also had a slab of foam rubber that lived under the elbow pad. I realized that one purpose of that is also to keep hot air in the backbone from coming into the cabin.

Yeah...
On the Type 54, the front T section of the chassis has two large central holes - one on the front face and another on the rear face. Presumably all models are the same/similar.

My car had the large rubber bung in the front hole but nothing in the rear one adjacent to the backbone. I don't know if the factory installed a bung in the rear hole but that seems the obvious remedy for the hot air "backwash".

Did we all only get one bung, or was it just me?