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Old 26-09-13, 10:12
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Tony Baker
 
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Location: Wide Bay, QLD, Australia.
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Default The thot plickens!

Tony, I dont know if there is a source of exhaust pipes here in Australia, but I may be finding out soon, unless I can salvage mine! I tried for fitting this afternoon, and found one, possibly two problems.
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The long pipe fits well, but the rear most straight section 'kicks' upward instead of remaining horizontal. This doesn't look right to me !?!
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Secondly, when attaching the shorter piece I discovered it sits too far out from the exhaust manifold, and cannot be bolted. The gap is perhaps 4 inches. All may not be lost. In a case of serendipity, there could be sufficient length of the area that joins the two bits, to allow me to effect a rescue.

Guess I was rather optomistic to paint the pipes, eh! Typical.

P.S: Apologies for the average photos. They were taken by my tablet thingy, and I was in the process of trying to take better ones when I was called away quickly, to modify a 5ft brown snake! I say modify because I made a slight alteration to its length, making two considerably shorter black snakes from the original single one. Wretched things.
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