exhaust system fastners

[vwdaun at yahoo.com (Daun Yeagley)]

--- LEF <rocco16@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>  I do know that some car manufacturers used to use brass
> nuts on the exhaust manifold nuts 40+ years ago...and,
> while they made an incredible screech when you unscrewed
> them after being in place for decades, they DID come off!

My 172 still has brass nuts on the exhaust....    :)


Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
'80 Scirocco                 '81 Scirocco S 16v to be?
'86 Scirocco 8v              '88 Scirocco 16v 
'88 Scirocco Slegato (Gino!) '96 Passat GLX Wagon
'56 Cessna 172
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - Ehrlich's Law.



 
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