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On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 21:22, Jim Adney wrote: > On 5 Apr 2004 at 18:58, Russ Wolfe wrote: > > > The only asbestos that I was aware of used in the older VW's (in the 40 > > some years of working on them) was in the brake shoe's, and in the > > clutch disc's. It was only fiberglass used in the heater systems. > > What about the exhaust sealing rings? I've always wondered what was in those. They may have had a little asbestos in them. But they also had a lot of graphite. The factory ones did anyway. Nothing to worry about. (hack hack, cough cough) ;=) The new ones I see are made of a steel wool type material. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org