> I will try to get some pictures Sunday.
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> My boat lives in salt water and my M-18 exhaust system failed at about 12
> years. The saltwater had eaten the tail pipe up from the inside out. The last
> secton of pipe snapped off and black smoke filled the engine compartment. The
> Catalina exhaust pipe design has to be the worse of any item on the boat.
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> My repair was to come out of the heat exchanger with new black iron pipe
> and turn my pipe veritical as did the orig. pipe, I installed a Yanmar water
> injector elbow which converts the iron pipe to rubber exhaust hose and it
> sends the exhaust hose downward at a 45 degree angle. I then installed a
> verilift fiberglass muffler. The Yanmar water injector was about $100 at the
> time and I think the muffler also cost about $100. I attached the origional
> exhaust hose to the muffler output and added a hose from the Yanmar water
> injector to the muffler input. Now the injected salt water combines with the
> exhaust in the rubber hose not the steel pipe.
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> I noticed the other day that West Marine sells the fiberglass exhaust wrap
> tape. I don't know what kind of exhaust wrap tape Catalina used I would take
> all precautions when handling the old exhaust components.
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> Eddie Longest
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> Reniassance
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> Ches. Bay
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