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Commiseration Posted by Ari [Email] ![]() ![]() |
Replaced the flex pipe on my wife's 97 CSE yesterday. It's straightforward in that year - just a stub pipe between the cat and the rest of the exhaust system. Just four nuts. Four, lousy nuts. I had to use a cutting wheel to cut each nut off. Not a single one gave up easily. And I had soaked them in penetrating oil well in advance. I'm loathe to use a torch down there - a friend of mine did that a few years back - the firemen did save most of the house.
Once the nuts were off (scattered in pieces in the driveway), the old pipe came out easily and the new one slipped right in. Car's nice and quiet, now. The flex pipe was developing holes at the aft flange - the flex portion was still in decent shape, surprisingly.
No moral to the story other than:
Get the car up as high as you can - adjustable jack stands are great.
Get out and stretch often - or more often than I did.
Cutting wheels make great Holiday presents.
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