Thank you Alistair for keeping these web pages alive!
I rediscovered comments by Frank G and Robert Keezer here:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/exhaust_3.html

It provides more insights into what has been offered up in this thread.

Neil.

On 2/6/14, Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:

>....  I installed this bushing:
> http://www.dynomax.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/690x380/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/f/l/flexpipe_1_1_1.jpg
>     on my engine swap. (image of it installed):
>
> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ozMqBRgLXD8/Ubu5n5CAFoI/AAAAAAAAHvU/P9YKIPdcSMI/s500/Exhaust%2520v3%25203.jpg
>
> For various reasons, I knowingly installed the bushing so one end was
> slightly cockeyed. Regardless....
>
> Have any other folks had this part fail prematurely? Would the
> cockeyed install cause it to wear prematurely?   (I think the answer
> is "yes")      ;)

--
Neil n

Blog: tubaneil.blogspot.ca

'88 Westy http://tinyurl.com/c8rlw6p

'81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"  http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/

Vanagon VAG *Gas* inline-VR Engine Swap Group:

http://tinyurl.com/d7gd5ej