Re: trying to remove exhaust

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

Yes, there is a tool to complete this procedure; it's called a hacksaw! 
Bolts are cheap. Just saw, pound, chop, kill those f'ing bolts!!!


From: Aaron <catacomb@psu.edu>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: trying to remove exhaust
>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 20:14:17 -0400
>
>Hello all.. any help is appreciated, as always:
>
>I'm trying to pull off my exhaust to replace the muffler and gut the cat,
>but I can't get the darn things off.
>
>I gave up on trying to get the bolts out of the cat. flanges. This is
>because I broke two cobolt bits, and I even bought a tool made specifically
>for extracting broken bolts, but still didn't work.  The ony thing that
>works at all is the dremmel rotary cutter with fiberglass reinforced
>cut-off disks.  Nothing else with cut into the metal.
>
>I'm now trying to pull the whole system off starting from behind the cat.
>The problem is that I can't remove the joints where one exhaust pipe fits
>into the other (each spot where there are clamps).
>
>The clamps came off fairly easy.  However, I can't pull, twist, or wedge
>the pipes enough that they will budge.
>
>Are they installed with some kind of cold-weld glue?  Is there any kind of
>tool that can be used to seperate these joints?
>
>Very frustrating..  I have to go pick the rust particles out of my eyes 
>now.
>
>-Aaron
>  84 8V
>
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Chris DeLong
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