[Shotimes] Y-pipe install problem

[cmichaelo@optonline.net]

Can you not straighten them back, for example by heating them up first and then bend them back to where they belong?

I'm curious how they became skew in the first place, and didn't you have trouble removing the flange also (assuming the studs were skew even before you removed the y-pipe.)

Michael
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----- Original Message -----
From: frank.sappy@comcast.net
Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2005 10:05 pm
Subject: [Shotimes] Y-pipe install problem

> I'm trying to install the factory Y-pipe in my car as the final 
> step to changing the clutch.  The front exhaust flange was no 
> problem.  The rear is a different story.  The studs are skewed and 
> I can't the flange over both of them.  I read about this problem 
> in the SHOforum but can't find it doing numerous searches.
> 
> Does anyone have any similar experience with skewed exhaust studs 
> and any tricks to getting the flange on.  I don't want to try and 
> remove the stud for fear of breaking it.  
> 
> Thanks in advance for any information you might have. 
> 
> Frank 
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