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stubby tail pipe - easy solution?
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 21:49
by CovKid
I'm replacing my entire exhaust in September with a mostly stainless system but in the meantime I have an MOT due and the tailpipe is a tadge shorter than it used to be (usual tailpipe rot). Now its just not worth going out and buying a tailpipe and struggling with the seized bolts, only to be ripping it all out again a few weeks later. Any ideas how I could get existing system to pass with a simpler short-term solution?
Re: stubby tail pipe - easy solution?
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 22:06
by tinman
Mine passed without a tailpipe, totally rotted off!! Don't know if it should have?
Anyway as you say my bolts was siezed solid tried drilling them out but no good, so in the end I just welded a piece of exhaust pipe on to make a tailpipe. Does the job!
Re: stubby tail pipe - easy solution?
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 22:44
by CovKid
This is the main reason I'm swapping for a header pipe that will take a variety of stainless back boxes. I absolutely HATE all this messing around with rusty bolts and makes zilch sense to me to be paying around £80 (minimum) for a box that will rot out in no time AND be a pig to get off when you can buy a stainless backbox for less than £50 these days. Perhaps I could slide a bigger pipe over whats left of old one for now.
Re: stubby tail pipe - easy solution?
Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 06:35
by armyphil
CovKid wrote: Perhaps I could slide a bigger pipe over whats left of old one for now.
Thats what i was going to suggest one of those nasty slip on things from halfords???? just to cover the rot a little
Re: stubby tail pipe - easy solution?
Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 09:05
by ghost123uk
armyphil wrote:CovKid wrote: Perhaps I could slide a bigger pipe over whats left of old one for now.
Thats what i was going to suggest one of those nasty slip on things from halfords???? just to cover the rot a little
Totally good idea.
I did that (though now I have a new system on the van
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