Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:43:48 -0400
Reply-To: Edward Maglott <emaglott3@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Edward Maglott <emaglott3@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: exhaust leak,
header tubes to collector on 2.1 engine-Exhaust sealants
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Dennis,
Where can an average Joe buy this in the 4oz can?
Edward
At 11:18 PM 7/24/2013, Dennis Haynes wrote:
>http://www.jrdindustries.com/id68.html
>
>I have recently discovered the JRD 7100, get the 4oz. can. This will seal
>those exhaust flanges. Silicones and other types of sealants should never be
>used on the exhaust unless the goal is an O2 sensor or Catalyst replacement.
>Exhaust temps can get into that 1300f range (the pipes glowing red). If you
>must use a sealant you need something to put up the fight.
>
>
>Dennis
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
>Stephen Grisanti
>Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:00 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: exhaust leak, header tubes to collector on 2.1 engine
>
>Same thing happened to me with an exhaust system from a different vendor.
>Did not look quite lined up and leaked when I fired it up, so relied on the
>extra gaskets and spray copper stuff to seal it up. I would have much
>rather had a set that lined up perfectly but needed the van ready for an
>upcoming vacation already planned. Sometimes you just have to make do.
>
>Stephen
>
>
>________________________________
> From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:52 AM
>Subject: Re: exhaust leak, header tubes to collector on 2.1 engine
>
>
>At 11:26 AM 7/24/2013, OlRivrRat wrote:
> > Why didn't you return them?
>
>By the time you get underneath and are trying to fit them up you tend
>to have an awful lot invested in the status quo...my experience anyway.
>
>I got some 1.9l exhaust stuff from Bus Depot many years ago that
>needed surgery. Come to think of it I rather believe it was
>Dansk. It was a rush order, I was headed to Nova Scotia the next
>day, and I spent the night doing whatever it was. I wasn't extra
>happy, and after the trip I asked to swap them for proper ones. Ron
>wasn't particularly receptive, and I understood -- he couldn't really
>give them back to Dansk after I'd hacked on them. In a better world
>etc, but this is the world we have. It certainly wouldn't have made
>sense to blow the trip for this.
>
>Perhaps this is how we absorb some of the life-pain of people who
>have to spend their lives welding flanges on the ends of odd-looking
>bent tubes times infinity.
>
>Yours,
>David
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