Here's my take on it. For what you are going to pay to have someone replace
the muffler order a new cat, muffer, muffler tip and gaskets from the BD and
replace them all at once. That way you are only dealing with 1 connection,
the cat to the pipe, in which you have to worry about getting bolts off.

Bryan

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:22 PM , Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

> I've not actually been under there to look, what with the broken ankle
> and all*, but my son reports that the old merffler on my 1.9l 84 auto
> transmission is starting to get a certain "lacy" look to it. I think
> that I can shortly expect more exhaust to come out of places that it
> isn't supposed to come out of than that where it is meant to come out.
>
> Is replacing the thing an E-Z thing.? I hope it does not usually
> involve advanced welding skills, giant pit in the floor to stand it, a
> background in metallurgica, and a pipe-bending engine.
>
> For replacement merfflers, are there lots of choices?
>
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>
> * Physical therapist is a devotee of the marquis de Sade
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano Bend,
> OR KG6RCR