Miata Mailing List: September 1999, Message #302

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Silcone is good for rubber. There should be no problem at all.
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: dgarcia@lightspeed.net <dgarcia@lightspeed.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <miata@list.miata.net>
Date: Thursday, September 02, 1999 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: Removing exhaust system rubber donut hangers.


> do the top first... just push it straight off...the weight of the exhaust
>>helps hold it straight, then take the one off the exhaust system pin...
>>anyway, that's how I was taught to do it years ago and it works... you may
>
>>want to spray some silicone or other lubricant on it as well....   Oh
gawd,
>
>>folks are gonna jump me and say that will rot the rubber or something  :)
>>
>>bob
>>drive fast and don't crash!
>>
>
>Yeah the Lube works best on getting of the hangers.
>As soon as I put lube on them they came right off.
>
>And people said the same thing about rotting the rubber when using a lube.
>But I said to my self "Self if all the crap from the road gets on the
rubber
>than how can some lube hurt it." There is alot of crap dropped from cars
and
>trucks ets.. on the roads that It has to be worse than silicone spray.  My
02
>worth
>
>Cheers,
>Dan
>
>