Need Help Building Shopping List

Dec 06, 2003 2 Replies

My heater boxes are leaking, that's how the exhaust is getting into the warm air in my 71 bus. So I've gone over to aircooled to order a pair of new heater boxes.



I figure (being inexperience but not simple) that I will need various gaskets and fitting to put things together when I install the new boxes. However, there many, many items on aircooled that seem to fit the general description of what I'm looking for.



Header exhaust gaskets -- they offer copper ones, I don't think it matters for me and at $15 that's a bit expensive, but can't seem to find any other option there.



The thingies that attach the muffler input pipes to the heater box outlets. What the heck are those? Would those be the "Damper & Tail Pipe Installation Kit"? - looks kinda similar to what I see under the bus.


...you should get:

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...this provides you with the two clamps for the heat exchangers, and two new gaskets to the head, as well as two new gaskets for the block off plates on your pre-heat tubes....along with nifty bonus hardware such as shroud screws and exhaust nuts.

...only problem with these kits is they only include two pipe to head gaskets....as they are strictlt a muffler installation kit..so you need to spend the extra buck and order two more $.50 gaskets:

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...I reccomend getting some copper gasket spray from your local auto parst store and coating everything for extra assurance of a leak free install.

...Gareth

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Just the ticket. Many thanks, Gareth.

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