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Subject:Re: Anti-seize [WAS Re: Water Pump Replacement]
From:Dennis Haynes
Date:Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:16:37 -0400

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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Jake

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