Fortunately my Vanagon does not have rotten bolts/nuts in such extreme condition. I got the power steering pressure hose successfully replaced this morning. I had to cut off the hose to use a socket. It came off without struggling with a socket. Installing the new hose was not completed without some struggle though. Routing of the hose was not straight forward.� A quick test showed no more leak. Job done.

Thanks again for everyone's tips. Sorry to bother everyone with this NVC subject.

MJ in Sunny California 

--- On Fri, 7/23/10, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: [NVC]-Friday Subject: Howto Locite question
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, July 23, 2010, 6:35 PM

At 07:58 PM 7/23/2010 Friday, M. Jade wrote:
>� including those on the exhaust.

Oh my, you should see mine.� The nuts look like tiny Mt. Fujis
instead of hexagons.� No possible way to get any kind of wrench on
them (except the blue one) and really unrecognizable as nuts.� Not to
mention the flanges almost gone from the cast-iron collector
piece.� It will need either brazing up or replacing when the system
next comes apart.� I haven't dared look at the studs -- I don't want
to know.� Yet.

Yours,
David