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On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 18:44, Keith Park wrote: > Not sure if thats what I used... mine was red and not woven but it does look > like they have a tape that may be the exact same thing. I havent had the > exaust or anything else apart on that engine in close to 10 years so Im not > going to pull any of it apart now, but that is the correct fix to weld new > stubs in. One thing about the welding is that the inserts add some > restriction with the sleeve that fits in the exaust pipe, or are there ones > out there that dont? > The ones that I made, I opened up on the inside as far as I thought I dared. Once they are welded, you don't actually need the shoulder. It just locates it while welding. Once I get set up, It takes me about 10 minutes to make one. I didn't have my wire welder when I installed them on my '66 engine, so I brazed them in. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~