Exhaust doughnuts have been around since - - well, since I've been
fooling around with cars - - real old cars. They are not a JBA thing.
Go to any muffler shop and they'll have a big piece of pegboard on
the wall or a board with nails in it or a big bin somewhere full of
the things. Like I said - this is not a JBA proprietary connection
device. All it is is a round gasket - that's it. It's a ring made of
metal and compressed asbestos (or something similar) that goes
between some rounded/flared exhaust joints - at least anyone I know
would know who's into cars would know exactly what I was talking about
if I said "doughnut joint" when referring to exhaust. Some cars use
them, some don't. I know that the 97's don't. Whoever Jeff Bell is
has never messed with exhaust much.
Tate
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Muffenbier [SMTP:Jpm699@email.msn.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 4:42 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Re: jba headers...no leaks
I'm curious about these donuts I've heard so much about. I called
Jeff Bell
to ask about them(My y pipes are leaking just a bit) and he said there
is no
such thing. Please explain?
Jason
>the bobster wrote:
>
>> We have installed the "doughnuts " on our 92 and the leak problem
>> where the JBAs couple to the Y pipe is solved.
>>
>> Any sealer we had put between the header and Y-pipe had blown out.
>> the doughnuts filled this gap perfectly.
>
> Where did you get these doughnut gaskets? And more importantly,
how
>do I identify them to the local parts houses?
>
> I noticed that my JBA instructions talked about these things, but
did not
>give me any way to identify them other than "the doughnut things that
sit
>in the exhaust flange."
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron "Don't Want No Leaks" Rader
>
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