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Damn, that took all day, but the exhaust is on. Cut the heads off the bolts on the cat flange, and the buggers were still really well seized in, thought they were never coming out. Had to risk the flange to a chisel as well. Then the tailpipe my parts guy gave me was 1/4 too small gah, but the old one is the right size across the tip, so I cut it off... and the cut end is 1/4 too small... wtf... but I've got yards of 1 3/4 pipe that just came out from under... so I cut a piece out of that... and it's really thick heavy stuff, of course it won't lap inside or outside the muffler... no problem methinks, I have a pipe expander... if I could hold the damn pipe down... could only stretch it as good as I could grip it... tried parking a car on it, didn't work, kept falling off it... repeated attempts to stretch it as much as I could find new ways to grip it... and it was just a hair too small... finally I thought of a pipe wrench, and set to with that, charles atlas chest expander style, annnnnnnd got the pipe expander fully wedged... the stupid thing has a groove between the first and 2nd expansion rings, and the pipe waisted into the groove... completely out of patience, I stuck the old tailpipe on backwards for now, until I get an exchange.
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I remember The RoadWarrior..To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time..the world was powered by the black fuel & the desert sprouted great cities..Gone now, swept away..two mighty warrior tribes went to war & touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing..thundering machines sputtered & stopped..Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice
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