Re: trying to remove exhaust

[William J Erikson <williamjosiah@juno.com>]

IMHO, there is only one tool for this job:
Acetelyne torch. They're awesome. You can cut through one layer of metal
without touching the one behind it, if you know what you're doing.
	-Josiah

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 20:14:17 -0400 Aaron <catacomb@psu.edu> writes:
> 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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