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Re: MGB exhaust flange gasket

To: "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: MGB exhaust flange gasket
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:42:08 -0800
If it makes you feel any better, so did I.

ahhclem@kcnet.com had this to say:

>Yea, Thanks ALOT Bob. Now I know for sure that I put it on bass ackwards.
>
>RJ
>
>>Thanks,
>>Bob
>>
>>On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:00:17 -0800 "Jerry Causey" <jcausey@whidbey.com>
>>writes:
>>> I saved a response from John Twist to this question a year or two 
>>> ago:
>>> 
>>> "The good gaskets are supplied with the silver, 
>>> metal side and an asbestos side.  The SILVER 
>>> side is fitted DOWN so that the more flexible    
>>> ASBESTOS is fitted UP against the manifold. I 
>>> usually coat the metal band of the gasket, as 
>>> well as the corresponding section of the exhaust 
>>> pipe with nickle anti-seize so that it is easily 
>>> removed next time..." 
>>> 
>>> >  Question, which side of the gasket goes toward the manifold -  
>>> the
>>> >  metal or the asbestos?
>>> > Bob
>>> > '72 GT
>>> 
>>> 
>>
>>
>
>


--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.


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