What is the easiest way to get exhaust back together

[kinger]

Been fighting this for 2 hours. What is the easiest way to get the exhaust back together. I swapped out Y pipes for excel and got them clamped down to the flex pipes but I cant get the muffler on now because it just keeps wrecking the gasket and bunching it up until I pull it out and clean up the gasket and try again.

I'm stuck.

I do have the y pipe bracket that is riveted to the tunnel loose and going to reattach with SS bolts but not sure that helps me at all.

Is it easier to remove flex pipes at the head and then hook up the exhaust muffler?

thanks

 

[Snowmobileaddict]

Try putting the gaskets on the ends of the y-pipes first and then putting a clamp onto the gasket to squeeze them down a bit. Then take them off, put the gaskets inside the muffler inlets. Apply grease to the y-pipes then try to tap the muffler onto the y-pipes. The grease helps alot, it did for me at least. It'll just smoke a bit the first time you start it up as the grease burns off.

 

[Super Sled]

I use ratchet straps around the 2 header pipes to make them smaller/ closer together (especially with Excell headers), then the silencer pipes will fit on the header pipes.

I actually stacked four short 2x4's right under the header pipes and inside the ratchet strap, so the ratchet strap would fit -- otherwise the header pipes are too small to get the ratchet strap around.

Tough to explain this, but it works to make the two header pipes cinch together when you tighten the ratchet strap. Then you can fit the silencer pipe onto the headers -- once cinched together, and with a little grease on the header tubes, the silencer pipes will slide right on.

 

[kinger]

Thanks for the tips, I ended up using grease and and a ratchet strap on the header pipe and exhaust and sucked them together, no idea if it worked inside but they went in. I haven't fired it yet, fingers crossed. What a PITA.

 

[Almost700]

24 pack of coors light and a big hammer and you'll get it to work.