Rebuilding heater box, replace core?

Don't clamp the tubes down tight at this point. The ring terminal from the ground wiring still needs to go under that screw.
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I had the misfortune of removing both sides of the self adhesive tape from the inlet seal. I reinstalled it with loctite yellow weatherstrip seal (3M is not available in Pa anymore) and then removed just the paper and rolled it sticky side down to attach per instructions.
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(I used the same tube adhesive earlier to reinstall the orignal styrafoam strip to seal the shut off damper hinge to the metal backing. I could have used the new strip but saw no need. Regardless adhesive there best insures it won't move.)