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Took the absolutely phenomenally amazingly beautiful day to do some more work putting my engine back together. Added a little slideshow to my website of my progress so far: http://www.tiserves.com/VW/myvws/index.html Before I tighten everything down, I have a couple more questions... 1) The Tom Wilson book says about the air intake to use the blocks AND a gasket on each side of the blocks where the tubes attach to the head. I only used the blocks. The Bentley doesn't say anything about this (as far as I could tell). Should I take it apart and add gaskets or are the blocks alone OK? 2a) I have an exhaust hardware kit for a Type 3 from CIP. Where are the copper rings used? 2b) Also, one of my heater boxes looks like it had a repair done where the muffler meets it (I think this is pretty common). I can't use that braided-wire type gasket that allows the two-piece clamp to pull the exhaust flange against it and clamp it to the heater box tube because There's already some kind of "solid" gasket that looks like it's welded onto the repair tube. Another gasket won't fit. Will I have an exhaust leak here once I put the clamp on over this solid gasket and the muffler flange? Should I use some kind of gasket material here to fill it out more and then put the clamp over it? Thanks! ===== -------------------------------------------- 1971 FI AT Squareback http://www.tiserves.com/VW/ vw_variant71@yahoo.com -------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org