Lightly wire brush the pipes.  Then, find some nice
white or tan colored clay/mud and smear it on the
pipes. Drive to temp.  let cool and remove excess mud.
\ Looks great and no more red!

Loretta Abbott-Kennon wrote:
>
> Hello List!
>
> I have a problem now with both my Vanagons.
>
> Before I got my Syncro I took my regular Vanagon
> everywhere (& got stuck
> plenty of times).  About four years ago I took my
> Vanagon out on a muddy lake
> bed and though I didn't get stuck it was a mess to
> clean up!  The problem is
> that the mud seemed to bake on to the exhaust pipes
> and will not come off.
> After all this time my exhaust still has a reddish
> color from the mud.
>
> This past winter I took my Syncro out to the Navajo
> reservation in Arizona
> and took off down a road that was closed to visit a
> family way out on the
> edge of a canyon.  Thinking that my Syncro could get
> through anything after
> pulling several cars and trucks out of the muddy
> ditches on my way, I too got
> stuck, very stuck, and close to sliding off over an
> edge!!!  I camped in that
> spot for two days until I heard a truck (4X4 Chevy w/
> huge tires and chains)
> and waved the driver down and he kindly pulled me
> out.  (After coming close
> to us both going over the slippery edge.)  Well, that
> humbled me and my
> "Syncro go anywhere" ideas but it left me with that
> same reddish brown
> baked-on mud on my exhaust system!
>
> Has anyone else had this mud problem?  Anyone solved
> it?  Ideas?
>
> Thank you for reading my sad muddy story.
>
> Loretta
> 87 Syncro GL
> 90 GL