I am taking everything off my Maverick and restoring it. My question is what have some of you used to replace the dryrotted and desintigrated foam that goes on the A/C and heater doors to I guess, help seal them? Is it needed? It was on there for a reason. 32 years have taken its toll. I'm talking about the doors that divert the hot and cold air within the vent system.
I used a product available from Mcmaster-Carr. It is adhesive-backed, fairly dense felt available in 1/8, 3/16, etc. sheets. The adhesive is super strong, although I'm not totally sure it will hold up to the heat over time. It came in small sheets and was pretty easy to install. Seems like great material for the job, but you might want to go with a proven product like the mustang stuff...I didn't know it was available when I rebuilt my heater box. I didn't think there were too many people out there sandblasting and refinishing the heater internals like I did on my Mav so I never checked around for a "correct" material.
Go to your local fabric store and buy a roll of new sponge foam, and while your there buy yourself a can of contact cement, you can cut and contact all the doors yourself :bananaman
