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On 16 Mar 2003 at 18:24, Ben Doughney wrote: > I spent all afternoon sawing off the welds- for some reason the heater box > unions had been welded to the outside of the heater boxes. Once I got rid of > the welds, I tried to loosen them with a spanner, but they are frozen solid. > I put some oil on them, but I think it is going to take much more to get > them off- I suppose the only way would be to heat them up with a torch or > something? I don't think you'll ever get them off without destroying the muffler. I suggest that you just go ahead and install the muffler and heater boxes and then take it to a muffler shop and get them to weld the pipes to the nuts, all around. This will seal the leaks and quite the muffler. Eventually, when the muffler rusts out, you can cut the pipes, torch the nuts, and then, maybe, get them apart. > I had a look at the Bently manual (should have done that first I guess! ;-) > and saw the sealing ring- is that just like the ones that go in between the > lower heater boxes and the muffler? I don't suppose there is any way of > sealing them without getting those nuts loose is there? Weld as above. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org