Looking at a copy of the West Coast Metric Water Cooled catalogue,  the Air Intake
Elbow costs between $68 to $71 US to replace with a new one.  Surely things are
not that tight that you guys have to resort to some of the measures I read so far
just to keep the old ones going.

Forgive me but the measures mentioned seems false economy.  Hang the expense get a
new one and forget worrying where the elbow will split or fail next.

What is that saying of yours  " my 2 cents worth "

Ray Hunnam
"Oh for those prices down here."

Tom Young wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Gail Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> > but i was wondering if it would be okay to take it off and clean
> > up the surface, and then just apply a duct tape "bandage" around the cracked
> > area.  It probably gets pretty hot around there, but might still make it
> > airtight.
>
> Gail:
>
> The manufacturers of "GOOP" - used to repair the soles of running shoes -
> make a similar product for automotive use.  I removed the air intake
> elbow, washed it up good in soap and water, and applied the automotive
> GOOP.  This has stood up well now for over a year.
>
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> Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
> Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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