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Evening All,
Fitting a new exhaust tomorrow , hopefully and I know I’m overthinking this , however here we go .
I’ve bought from VW new copper lock nuts and studs to secure manifold flanges .
My question is will I be ok using stainless washers under the copper lock nuts ?
Been dead lucky in so far as no snapped studs ! Recut threads on all studs and look ok .
Rest of exhaust bit of a b’stard to saw off
Van is 1984 DG W/C 1,9 . Early system .
Thanks,
Chris

Stainless washers, and copper locking nuts will be fine,
I would expect the studs to be steel, not copper as copper would be too soft.

The nightmare comes in if you use stainless nuts.

So you will be fine.

Cheers Robsey , yes studs are steel !
Just waiting until my back returns to normal and finish off .
Atb,
Chris

I favour old school brass nuts with spring washers on high tensile steel exhaust studs. They never seize.