Guess what! - it still ain't done and it's Tuesday night!!

I was totally unable to get the right bracket bolted back in place.
Spent a lot of time and effort, sweating profusely and muttering under
the breath profusely. Couldn't do it. It's not like I have no mechanical
skills - but I just couldn't get in there with my hands(fairly big) and
the wrench's to get the job done. Whipped my butt in this heat.

So what to do. Bling - idea!! Remove the J-pipe, slide the muffler to
the left, tighten the right hand bracket bolts, slide the muffler back
over both brackets, install J-pipe - DONE!

Wrong!!! Wrong!!! Wrong!!!

The bolts to the manifold are like welded - so badly rusted. Couldn't
budge them. Nest step - cut the bloody bolts, put in new ones on
re-assembly!

Ran out of time - had to put off until Tomorrow.

Join me tomorrow in the on-going saga of the muffler change on Ol' Red -
my 1988 GL Vanagon!

John

On 8/13/2013 2:06 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
> Hey, that's Felder Industry's patented intellectual property Time
> Estimation Configurator !!!
>
> : )
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Gene P <olgreywoof@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8/13/2013 1:32 AM, JRodgers wrote:
>> Dennis,
>>
>> This job should have taken only an hour - maybe hour and a half.
>> But with the fits and starts - it's gotten spread over four days.
>>
>> No way that should be done in an hour.  I have a very smart cousin whose
>> formula for calculating household or automotive jobs is:
>> Take your best estimate, double it, then raise to the next increment of
>> measurement.  So your 1 - 1 1/2 hours becomes 2 - 3 days.  OK, you're
>> still over that, but the procurement issues weren't figured in.
>>
>> You did fine.
>> gp
>>
>