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On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 19:46, Jim Adney wrote: > On 13 Nov 2003 at 0:39, Dave Hall wrote: > > > 3) The insert does narrow the pipe a bit, but there's not much else that makes > > a reasonable job of a repair apart from another heat exchanger. It's just a > > piece of thick-walled tube turned down to fit inside the old one - not too > > difficult to do on a lathe. > > Jim, I'm surprised if they are a different diameter from the Beetle ones - the > > same asbestos ring gasket fits both. > > They really are smaller. The ring gasket that fits ours is the gasket that > beetles use on their little chrome peashooter tailpipes. The heat exchanger > gasket is a different, smaller one. > The early non-fresh air T-1 engines used a smaller gasket. The fresh air engines all use the same gasket at the heat exchanger. It IS the same gasket as the chrome tail pipe. The repair pipe WAS still available at RMMW the last time I looked. I am sure they are available at other sources too. -- 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