04 plate car
38k miles
My exhaust started blowing in a big way (undrivable) so i sourced a new one, Doogyrev was kind enough to bestow upon me the best condition used exhaust known to man Look!
So yesterday i set about getting the old one off, now ive taken a backbox off before so i started there so here she is, still covered in gungum from me trying to keep my hearing intact.
you can see the earth strap has snapped straight off and how much rust there was there
so time to attack it with the wire brush until my knuckles bled
now to pop off the earth strap bolt, oh look! that was so easy, maybe the rest will be just like this one not a plucking chance
under that is the real bolt, this ones usually not bad as its kinda protected by the earth bolt, off that comes.
now for the bad news, the next one, no matter how many pennys you throw into wells and wish, it will be stubborn and turn into cheese. So i put on the socket/breaker bar and all 6 corners rounded in one go. Out with the mini blow torch...
right that didnt work, lets get DREMEL on the job
ok so no.. dremel didnt work, well more that i wanted not to die of old age before removing the exhaust, so i gave up and found the massive crack between the flange and the pipe and stuck a brick chisel in TADA!
so i went for a spin with only the midpipe
I HEREBY NAME THIS SETUP.. THE K1(foc)
that was yesterday.... this is today
so i got a breaker bar on the Y-pipe to mid pipe bolts and pushed... and pushed... turned round, got my feet on the bar and pushed with everything i had... Not a movement. so i WD40'd it to death.... mmmm nope not a move. so i got out my new toy
BLOWTORCH mwahahahaha.
Yeah so tip 1 for blowtorching; dont use even near where you put WD40 30 mins ago
i put my heatproof mat round behind the Y-pipe and started blowtorching the nut, sorry i dont have any pics, it was a tight sqeeze getting under the car and i thought paying attention to the fire under my car was important but it came off first time!
My advice!! Just blow torch it right from square one, dont fanny about doing other stuff just go straight for the big guns plus its very cool when the neighbors watch, they actually think you know what your doing
so dead mid pipe is here
and dead back box is here
ive now only got the y-pipe on the car and it is deafeningly loud!!!