Cloth strip between hood and gas tank?

Will Herring · Aug 13, 2014

On a WD, there is that woven type cloth strip that sits between the top of the hood and the gas tank (as well as a separate, thicker piece, under the gas tank, for that matter). Well mine has rotted away, and I have this old army surplus belt with busted brass hardware that seems to be a similar material (except this one is green, of course). Does this seem like a reasonable thing to cut to size and replace the strip with? Or does it not really need to be there?

Super Trucker · Aug 13, 2014

Will work great. We used leather dress belt also.

Chris(WA) · Aug 13, 2014

That would work fine. It is there to help keep the hood from rubbing a hole in the gas tank.

Russ from MN · Aug 13, 2014

I would try the hood before you glue it down, I put
some 1/8 belting on our Farmall C and it made it
hard to get the hood to latch!

D beatty · Aug 13, 2014

Go to Rustic Red Acres.com and look up fuel tank webbing runs around $1.50 a foot.

bill mart · Aug 13, 2014

look up fender welting on Google. You may want to use the type that doesn"t absorb water. Bill

Fawteen · Aug 13, 2014

I used a piece of fire hose on my F14. Most
departments will have some old hose laying around.

Frank 41 · Aug 13, 2014

Steiner has them or you can use the webbing on small strap tie downs.

SweetFeet · Aug 13, 2014

Could try it and if/when it wears out, then you can
buy some.

YT sells black tank webbing (for Farmall F20's
anyway).

Gordon Rice carries a white tank webbing that we
bought for our Regular.

Ted in NE-OH · Aug 13, 2014

I use cork sheet gasket material cut to width.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 13, 2014

Deere offers a belt material in their radiator foam kits on the 30 40 and 50 series tractors, my local dealer has some leftover kits in the shop and has given me the belting until I could get some ordered for myself. chris

Matt_In · Aug 13, 2014

(quoted from post at 18:26:07 08/13/14) On a WD, there is that woven type cloth strip that sits between the top of the hood and the gas tank (as well as a separate, thicker piece, under the gas tank, for that matter). Well mine has rotted away, and I have this old army surplus belt with busted brass hardware that seems to be a similar material (except this one is green, of course). Does this seem like a reasonable thing to cut to size and replace the strip with? Or does it not really need to be there?

I have been using it for years without an issue.

Lauren in IOWA · Aug 14, 2014

Davenport Tractor has the original webbing. You can find them on the internet.

Traditional Farmer · Aug 14, 2014

Piece of innertube works for me.

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