Help... Cant get my exhaust apart, need to remove silencer

[mr.pitstop]

Ok we are out of ideas. Im trying to remove my muffler because I have a HUGE crack in the pipe just past where it goes from 2 to 1. I can not get the pipe to slip off the header. I've heated it and pounded it and everything I can think of. I cant pull on the muffler because its only one slight pull away from breaking in half at the crack. How the hell can I get this muffler off???? I need help...

 

[granto211]

Took some pounding with a rubber mallet for me. Maybe pry it open at the clamp with a flat head. I assume u loosend the clamps that are hiddn undrr the rear rubber gromets.

 

[mr.pitstop]

Oh ya, I've got the clamps completely off, I tried prying the taps open with a flat head but didn't seam to help.. I heated it up red hot, still couldn't get it to budge....

Anyone know if this can be welded??? I thnk its stainless steel but its pretty thin.. Im gunna try playing with it again today I really need to get it apart and fixed..

 

[gotta-b-blue]

I had the same problem. Penetrating oil works, but it will stink for a ride or two. I could not get mine off until one of my headers broke. Then I had to use a sawzall to cut the header off to get the exhaust off of the sled where I could work on it. Once I put the oil on it I was able to get it moving.

 

[snowbiscuit]

muffler

If you take the flex pipes off and come in from underneath, work the y-pipes forward with muffler bolts in place

 

[mr.pitstop]

Got it with some super penetrator and a little pounding. got it welded today but... What is that thing made of. I thought it was stainless steel but a magnet sticks to it but it dosn't weld like steel?? What is that pipe made of???????

 

[Honk]

titanium unless you change to the new SS. From what I've read is if ya don't have the right rod it will crack quickly again.

 

[granto211]

Y pipes are titanium and the silencer shell is stainless.

 

[mr.pitstop]

Is the silencer pipe (pipe leading into the muffler) stainless coated and steel underneith??? The magnet sticks to it but it welds weird???

 

[sleddog66]

Is the silencer pipe (pipe leading into the muffler) stainless coated and steel underneith??? The magnet sticks to it but it welds weird???

A magnet will stick to any low grade s.s. That is a good way to tell the quality of s.s.

 

[mr.pitstop]

so then this pipe is made of a low grade ss???

 

[sleddog66]

so then this pipe is made of a low grade ss???

Or titanium. I really don't know which. Someone will know for sure. But a magnet will not stick to a high grade of ss, only sticks to low grade ss.

 

[granto211]

all i know is when i opend my muffler up to gut it i brought it to local welder and they told me it was ss , not sure about the pipes. the only titAnium is the y pipes if they are stock... i do know that the mufler was double lined so the inside could maybe not be ss.

 

[Apex2006]

Yes it can be welded. Had both my Apex and Nytro welded due to cracks. When I replaced my stock exhaust I had the same problem trying to remove the stock exhaust doing everything you described. I finally wedged a 4 x 4 piece of wood flat against the muffler can and hit it with a large ax with a flat 8 pound head (Flat hammer side). That did the trick!