---- T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> So I bought what I thought was a good muffler from a big box supplier
> (the geeks). (shame on me) for my 85 vanagon gl
>
> Last week I noticed the tail pipe rusting away. Crud on the grown like
> the left over skin of a snake. Easy enough I thought....I'll replace
> the 3 bolts and the tail pipe and be done.
>
> Yesterday after returning from the airport I notice that the tail pipe
> was not there anymore.... WTH??  Looking closer the 3 bolt flange was
> not there either. Apparently it rusted away and fell off with the tail
> pipe.
>
> Anyone had this happen to them before and what did you do about a tail pipe?
> I still have an inner nub where the 3 bolt flange would have been
> welded to the muffler.

Well, I needed a tail pipe.  What seems more natural than going to a muffler shop, right?  So, my friendly local muffler shop put my van on a lift, said, "yep, you need a tail pipe.  it'll be $xx.xx."  Seemed a reasonable price, so I said go ahead, and went across the street for breakfast.  When I cam back, the thing was done.  Except the pipe was welded to the muffler, the clamp was gone.  I asked where it was, and was told it was in the scrap barrel.  Even as I asked, a scrap collector was driving away in a giant truck.

So, the tail pipe was welded to the muffler.  A couple years later, I need a muffler  .the pipe appears solid, but I'll have to buy a new pipe and clamp, as well as muffler.

But, like I said, friendly local muffler shop.  When I paid the bill, the nice lady in the office gave me a half pint of honey from her bees.  It was good honey, too, and I used it on pancakes on my very next camping outing.

mcneely
>
> Thanks,
> Tony

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David McNeely