Looking at a copy of the West Coast Metric Water Cooled catalogue, the Air Intake Elbow costs between $68 to $71 US to replace with a new one. Surely things are not that tight that you guys have to resort to some of the measures I read so far just to keep the old ones going. Forgive me but the measures mentioned seems false economy. Hang the expense get a new one and forget worrying where the elbow will split or fail next. What is that saying of yours " my 2 cents worth " Ray Hunnam "Oh for those prices down here." Tom Young wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Gail Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > but i was wondering if it would be okay to take it off and clean > > up the surface, and then just apply a duct tape "bandage" around the cracked > > area. It probably gets pretty hot around there, but might still make it > > airtight. > > Gail: > > The manufacturers of "GOOP" - used to repair the soles of running shoes - > make a similar product for automotive use. I removed the air intake > elbow, washed it up good in soap and water, and applied the automotive > GOOP. This has stood up well now for over a year. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tom Young young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU > Lafayette, CA 94549 '81 Vanagon > --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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