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Re: [T3] exhaust gaskets


On 12 Jun 2003 at 19:04, Mark Seaton wrote:

> Type3 detectives in UK have them I think, but they don't work very well.
> They actually advised me, and it worked very well, to get some type 4 (or
> late bus - can't remember)solid copper ones. They are oval shaped and thick
> copper- you have to round them and then soften them by heating to red hot
> and quenching. They fit perfect once round and seem to have worked  really
> well so far for me. 

I that works, I wonder if I could just braze up some from solid copper wire of 
the right diameter? I'd think that would be a LOT easier than trying to deform 
those big heavy oval type 4 gaskets.

-- 
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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