I have never seen brass exhaust nuts used by VW. Copper plated steel locknuts yes, but not brass. I prefer A4 stainless. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Jake de Villiers Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:19 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Anti-seize [WAS Re: Water Pump Replacement] As mentioned by John , those should be brass nuts and if you want you can use some hi-temp copper anti-seize on them. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com > wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 07:27 -0700, Zeitgeist wrote: > > > I obsessively use anti-seize on nearly all external fasteners, > > > But what kind anti-seize to use on the exhaust port fasteners? That's m' > question. > > -- RJS >
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