Exhaust leak - ghetto fix??

[yodta]

Kev, some old timer suggested the furnace cement and old can trick to me some years ago. ended up all cracking off, but I suppose it's worth a shot.

Andy, yeah, I'm saying put two clamps on each end. Install one, cinch it down, the install the second and make sure you rotate it 90 degrees, so it's bitting perpendicularly to the first one. make sense?

I was also thinking header wrap as well, but Missouri beat me to it. I'd make sure you get a good seal first, then the header wrap would be good to quiet things down a bit; I think those flexpipes are kinda thin and tinny. I use one, too and have been meaning to wrap it.

I've used RTV before on "worn" exhaust gaskets when I couldn't find a replacement. can't tell you for sure whether it worked or not, or how long it really lasts, but I can say that I use it to stuff that header bolt/EGR hole when I'm threading in the bolt, and it seems okay.

you could also try two different diameters of flex pipe, one inside the other?

hope this helps.

[andykrow]

Well, flex pipe is installed, sealed with the goop from autozone and clamped with two clamps. (I'll need to rotate one of 'em 90 degs though...) Seems to hold through a day of driving, and with me getting on the revs pretty good. I might get some of that header tape and wrap everything up good, but it seems decently quiet so far. Definitely seems to run a bit better, need to clear the computer and see if the O2 trouble code comes up again...

[andykrow]

Well, the autozone goop blew right out on my way back from lunch break... I'm gonna try to get it in a little better but maybe welding in a section of pipe is the way to go.

[5440]

Not the answer you are looking for but I ended up making an SS header using mandrel bendt sections. Its a tri-Y design. I was sick of welding holes in the old steel header. The exhaust is 100% SS from header back

Find someone with a MIG welder and patch it up right (as side from replacing it).

If you can find a similar dia piece of tube with a taper end, try sheet metal screws with some JB weld. You may have to get a exhaust expander for the other end, which is not expensive. Higher up tube slips into this piece, which then slips inside the lower section. A cheap fix that may hold up for a while.

[writeforus]

"Ghetto-fixes" are the best. Too funny.

We had a writer that did a whole series of project builds in our Chevy section, and I swear he managed to find a use for a chunk of 2x4 in each one...

[Gnarly4X]

Originally Posted by writeforus

"Ghetto-fixes" are the best. Too funny.

We had a writer that did a whole series of project builds in our Chevy section, and I swear he managed to find a use for a chunk of 2x4 in each one...

Hey, you should be careful.... now anything you say that implies or infers ANYTHING that can be construed as racist may enrage the radical left and the ACLU!!

Perhaps "ghetto-fixes" should be changed to "McGyver-fixes"

Personally, I think ghetto-fixes is funny and says it all.

[writeforus]

Actually you're right. And besides, what this guy writes is more under the line of "Redneck Fixes", and that's probably as politically incorrect as Ghetto.

I love his stories though. Even if I didn't personally care about the part, they were always good for a chuckle. Photos couldn't be beat. It's the kind of thing your kid would do on his first try to fix up the truck - if dad or the shop teacher wasn't looking...

A lot of pride in his work, and by Gawsh, he did it himself. Big thumbs up.

[stump runner]

ghetto, redneck, mac guyver, or whatever you want to call these type of fixes are fun, and great practice for just getting our "junk" home. however it seems to me that i bought 7 feet of cheep exhaust pipe with two bends for about $20. I cut it in half and reworked two tailpipes for $10 each. cheep and won't have to go back any time soon.

once i used an old c clamp for a crescent wrench, and another time i found an old piece of wire on the road that i used as my volt meter (sparks) then as my repair kit to replace a burned section of wire to get myself home. it's just a way of life. i joke that just because i won't let the fact that i don't have the right tool in my pocket slow me down from getting the job done.