At 10:58 PM 3/23/2009, John Bange wrote: >I have the GoWesty brass insert kit in my other van. It's held the >inserts fast for 20K miles so far. It appears to be a good solution. I >will probably try riveting the steel insert with stainless rivets on >my other van. I reckon one solution will work as good as the other... The rivets would be a lot cheaper, but the GoWesty method has the advantage of not introducing any additional stress points in the pipe. Plastic piping whose ends fall off on a whim kinda scare me, a lot more than the steel insert creeping out afterwards.
-- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '89 Po' White Star "Scamp" |
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