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Re: Blessed? [was Re: Hot Hot Hot] -Reply

To: MG Mavens <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Blessed? [was Re: Hot Hot Hot] -Reply
From: Matt Liggett <mliggett@bluemarble.net>
Date: 13 Aug 1997 11:22:03 -0500
Matt Kulka <Matt.Kulka@hboc.com> writes:
> I will say this is the first car on which I've found brass nuts
> holding the exhaust together.  I suppose that's so they don't rust
> to the manifold studs, but I don't yet have the knack to torque them
> correctly.  I don't want to strip that soft brass.  Maybe a dollop
> of lock-tite or double-nutting will help...

Consider stainless steel nuts instead.

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