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It's only fresh air there anyway - rubber inner tubes (4" I think( even work for the carb air intake rubbers and they are much closer to oil soutrces in the air cleaner and fuel fumes from the carbs. Typ3 Konny has them - they look the same; the crease is actually moulded solid, which makes them a bit less flexible, but they look good. Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:02 AM Subject: Re: [T3] Exhaust elbow needed > On 6 Sep 2005 at 23:25, Constantino Tobio wrote: > > > Along those lines, are there any sources for the rubber sleeve between > > the elbow and the fan shroud? I was thinking of using the silicone > > rubber ones available for turbos. Anyone successfully jerry-rig anything > > else other than duct tape for this purpose? > > I recommend that people find a mountaim bike inner tube of an appropriate > diameter. You should be able to grab a dead one at a bike shop for nothing. > It's not the right rubber for use around oil, so it won't last forever, but you > should be able to get a lot of them out of a single inner tube. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~