Jeff:
If the bolt is not long enough you may not have sufficient penetration as
with a stud you know when you bottom out i.e less chance to strip out the
hole.

Good Luck & Drive Safely
Ken Lewis , NC
86 VW Transporter Double Cab Pickup
60 Porsche T5 Coupe
85 VW Vanagon (Elvis)

On Mon, 2 Mar 1998 02:30:06 EST Oxroad <Oxroad@AOL.COM> writes:
>Hello--
>
>This exhaust thread got me thinking. My relatively new to me 83.5
>Westy had a
>rebuilt water cooled engine that was "installed" by a DPOs "mechanic."
>
>On my bus the exhaust is bolted to the heads with bolts. It would seem
>to me
>that the heads would correctly have studs with nuts holding the
>exhaust in
>place. My fear is when I have to change the exhaust those bolts won't
>move or
>will sheer. (but maybe the studs would as well?)
>
>But anyway, the question is should there be studs coming out of the
>heads for
>the exhaust. Or is this bolted configuration OK?
>
>TIA
>Jeff
>83.5 Westy
>

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