I was stupid not to.

Engine was out of van when I installed them (all except the collector). I *thought* the mis-alingment was not that bad. With engine in, and needing the van as a daily driver, I was reluctant to pull them off. So truthfully I am annoyed by my own actions and by Dansk equally :)

cheers

alistair

On 2013-07-24, at 8:26 AM, OlRivrRat wrote:
                Alistar

        Why didn't you return them?

                        ORR ~ DeanB

On 23 Jul , 2013, at 10:50 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:

> I recently installed Dansk front and rear, plus collector, pipe on my syncro. Terrible fit where the flanges meet at the collector. The pipe flanges are not on the same plane, rather they are angled back, like a dihedral. I tried stacking gaskets but no luck, still leaked. I would have to grind off a fair bit of the pipe flanges to make them coplanar. I'm toying with the idea of oxy-acetylene persuasion but probably will try machining an angled "gasket" from mild steel. Meanwhile I used the tube of goop David mentioned (Kleen-flo brand) and a little bit of rolled up ss mesh to fill the gap. Then a bent strip of ss plate to hole the mesh in place and the strip held in place by 2 right angled brackets attached to the flange bolts.
> 
> A real kludge if there ever was one. I'm really annoyed by the bad fit of the pipes.
> 
> alistair