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Old 11-14-2004, 03:38 PM
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I tried the silicone and it lasted about 200 miles before it all burned away and blew out. I've also tried the various muffler seal stuff in a tube from Napa and Carquest. Those lasted longer but still only 500-1000 miles each.

I'm going to try one more thing. I'm going to reseal it with the muffler seal from Napa. After it dries, I'm going to try to wrap the joint at each of the 4 pipes as best as I can with with aluminum tape (the stuff they use to seal parts of a household furnace). To hold the aluminum tape in place I'm then going to wrap the collector in typical header heat tape.

I'm not sure what I'll do if the above fails. I'm running out of ideas.
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