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I brazed one on my Notch... someday Ill do the Square ones too. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Wolfe" <russw@classicvw.org> To: "Type3" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [T3] Mmmmmm Donuts.... > 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 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >