Jeff: If the bolt is not long enough you may not have sufficient penetration as with a stud you know when you bottom out i.e less chance to strip out the hole. Good Luck & Drive Safely Ken Lewis , NC 86 VW Transporter Double Cab Pickup 60 Porsche T5 Coupe 85 VW Vanagon (Elvis) On Mon, 2 Mar 1998 02:30:06 EST Oxroad <Oxroad@AOL.COM> writes: >Hello-- > >This exhaust thread got me thinking. My relatively new to me 83.5 >Westy had a >rebuilt water cooled engine that was "installed" by a DPOs "mechanic." > >On my bus the exhaust is bolted to the heads with bolts. It would seem >to me >that the heads would correctly have studs with nuts holding the >exhaust in >place. My fear is when I have to change the exhaust those bolts won't >move or >will sheer. (but maybe the studs would as well?) > >But anyway, the question is should there be studs coming out of the >heads for >the exhaust. Or is this bolted configuration OK? > >TIA >Jeff >83.5 Westy > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] |
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