

| Subject: | Re: exhaust leak, header tubes to collector on 2.1 engine-Exhaust sealants |
| From: | Dennis Haynes |
| Date: | Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:16:23 -0400 |
You have to call them. They will sell to you over the phone. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Edward Maglott Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 8:44 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: exhaust leak, header tubes to collector on 2.1 engine-Exhaust sealants Dennis, Where can an average Joe buy this in the 4oz can? Edward At 11:18 PM 7/24/2013, Dennis Haynes wrote: >http://www.jrdindustries.com/id68.html > >I have recently discovered the JRD 7100, get the 4oz. can. This will >seal those exhaust flanges. Silicones and other types of sealants >should never be used on the exhaust unless the goal is an O2 sensor or Catalyst replacement. >Exhaust temps can get into that 1300f range (the pipes glowing red). If >you must use a sealant you need something to put up the fight. > > >Dennis > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf >Of Stephen Grisanti >Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:00 PM >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: exhaust leak, header tubes to collector on 2.1 engine > >Same thing happened to me with an exhaust system from a different vendor. >Did not look quite lined up and leaked when I fired it up, so relied on >the extra gaskets and spray copper stuff to seal it up. I would have >much rather had a set that lined up perfectly but needed the van ready >for an upcoming vacation already planned. Sometimes you just have to make do. > >Stephen > > >________________________________ > From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:52 AM >Subject: Re: exhaust leak, header tubes to collector on 2.1 engine > > >At 11:26 AM 7/24/2013, OlRivrRat wrote: > > Why didn't you return them? > >By the time you get underneath and are trying to fit them up you tend >to have an awful lot invested in the status quo...my experience anyway. > >I got some 1.9l exhaust stuff from Bus Depot many years ago that needed >surgery. Come to think of it I rather believe it was Dansk. It was a >rush order, I was headed to Nova Scotia the next day, and I spent the >night doing whatever it was. I wasn't extra happy, and after the trip >I asked to swap them for proper ones. Ron wasn't particularly >receptive, and I understood -- he couldn't really give them back to >Dansk after I'd hacked on them. In a better world etc, but this is the >world we have. It certainly wouldn't have made sense to blow the trip >for this. > >Perhaps this is how we absorb some of the life-pain of people who have >to spend their lives welding flanges on the ends of odd-looking bent >tubes times infinity. > >Yours, >David
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