Hi Volks, I had the day off work today and spent some quality time in the driveway with my VWs... The Vanagon got treated to a new #4 exhaust gasket with fresh bolts and a nice goopy slathering of copper RTV. It was a real PITA to realign the exhaust flange with the head, but with two ratchet straps and a bumper jack I was able to pull it off once I removed the oil filter. Now it's nice and smooth... Can't quite call it quiet with a cherry bomb muffler back there, but at least the sound is smooth and uniform and there are no more backfires or popcorn sounds back there. Eventually I will change out the whole works for a better system, but for the next month or two I think I'll be OK with the way it is now. I also finished off treating the seam rust on the driver's side front fender.. I treated the area weeks ago with rust-killer, then on Monday this week I smoothed the groove a bit with spot putty. Today I masked it off and applied a light coat of colour-matched lacquer, and the result turned out pretty good. Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: > I like all studs with nuts. > You can't just move the exhasut pipe back a quarter inch to sneak in a > port gasket that way ...........but it's a more solid installation and > much easier to deal with rust-wise a few years later. -- Happy Trails, Greg Potts 1973/74/79 Westfakia "Bob the Tomato" 1987 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop www.busesofthecorn.com www.pottsfamily.ca |
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