Ok... the old insulation is out and now we need to install the new insulation.
Remember when the old insulation was pulled out it had been glued in and it left a thin layer of foam that the new insulation will not stick to.
The plan is to stick the new insulation to a piece of lauan plywood and than fasten that to the engine housing.
Because of the rear frame of the dog house there is no way to get one piece (2 feet X 56 inches) into the dog house and up on the ceiling. I will create three panels and install one of them at a time.
This insulation was installed before the engine was installed and I cannot reach far enough into the dog house to screw a screw straight up into the ceiling. I can however reach far enough in to screw screws into the frame of the dog house.
So what I will do is screw a piece of 90 degree angle onto the rear cross member of the frame of the dog house to use as a lip to set the three panels on.
Here is the angle
There are two screws that protrude through the ceiling of the engine compartment that needed to be cut off.
Here is the 90 degree angle installed on the dog house frame.
On to building the panels, three pieces of lauan cut to size.
This is a test fit of the lauan pieces, I have spaced the leading edge up with a piece of wood so that when the pieces are installed it will be flush with the ceiling.
I ordered the insulation yesterday and it was here (I had to pick it up)
Here is the insulation out of the box and laid out across the panels.
Now the insulation has been cut to size and stuck to the plywood.
That probably would have been good enough but I used graffer's tape to go around the edges. one piece on top and the edge and a second piece on the edge and back so that the edge actually has two overlapping layers of tape.
Close up.
This stuff is TOUGH stuff. very hard to get off the roll and sticks like you would not believe (thing supper duck tape that can take heat).
Here are the new panels laying beside the old piece of insulation.
So the crowning moment, here are the panels installed. The front slides into the ledge, and then the panel is held up to the ceiling and self drilling screws are used to hold the panel in place (yes I looked to see where the screws would end up, there is a four inch dead space between the top of the dog house and the cabinet in back of the bed. Also remember the old insulation was screwed in place, in fact I used the same screws I took out to put the new insulation in. I also protected the new insulation from the screws with more gaff tape.
In this photo you and see the panel edge sitting on the ledge.
The proof I is in he pudding. I test ran the engine with the RPM raised to 1,000 for 15 minutes and there were no leaks.
I'd like to say this project is done, but it isn't. In the process of removing stuff to get excess I found this.
It was a light for the engine bay, it has power all the time, had no lense or bulb and was connect with a but connector. Obviously the previous owner had been in here, I keep finding stuff like this. I cut it out, I cannot leave this like this.
In my opinion the only way to insure a quality connection is to sober it.
And to use heat shrink tubing to seal the connection.
The light is installed with an on/off switch.
It throws a lot of light, this is what it looks like when the camera meter does not see the bright light.
All done right, no, hot really, the wiring job done on the fuel shut off solenoid is really bad. Do you remember way back when where I described the problem that started this whole problem. if I had done the install myself I wouldn't have spent the last to days installing new insulation. The only thing with the install of the fuel shut off solenoid I will end up not doing is bolting it onto the engine.
I will address that tomorrow and post it in my
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