---- T Collins <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I appreciate the comments. I guess this type of fail is not too
> uncommon then? I would have expected the tail pipe to have rusted, but
> not for the welded flange at the muffler tail pipe end to have gone
> bye-bye.

it is the end plate of the muffler on the opposite end from the tailpipe that has failed.  I think the muffler is just that old, that it is time.

A local shop has offered to put a "universal" muffler on including tail pipe, everything welded, for $150, or an Ansa muffler, with new pipe and flange, bolted, for $288.  Opinions?  Any functional difference?  Oh, with the "universal" muffler, which is 4" shorter than the Ansa,  he would weld the muffler to the pipe coming from the catalytic converter, too.

Scott, I already know your opinion, but if you can provide anything that will help me to understand the whole matter better, I'm listening.

mcneely

>
> Thanks,
> Tony

--
David McNeely