August is inspection month for the '87 Westy and I just fired it up after several weeks of inactivity (motorcycle accident had me driving an automatic for a month or so) to hear an exhaust leak, and not just a hole-in-the-muffler sound, but something more profound, expensive and troublesome.� Could not pinpoint it yet but it sounds like it's coming from the driver's side front.� Everything under there is rusted and nasty-looking so I guess I'll be getting a full system, everything upstream of the cat, rather than try to disassemble it and replace only the bad part.� Looks like I'll finally get to experience the joys of head studs and fine German rust.

Of course, I'm also in the process of re-roofing my house right now so the Westy work takes a back seat timewise until the roof is done.� We're hoping to take a (cheap) little camping vacation to the southern Appalachians when finished with the roof but that might not be as soon as we planned.

Warnings, helpful hints and dire predictions will be gratefully accepted.� I'm breaking out the PB Blaster as I write this for the first of many ceremonial pre-soaks.

Stephen