My personal preferred method is to use my 4.5 angle grinder and a cutting wheel. I carefully cut a double slice in the outer pipe. Then I use a chisel and hammer to bend it away and slip the piece off. If I'm careful and lucky, I can ru-use the cut piece.
I have seen at the car shows a $40 exhaust pipe puller-a-parter thingie. Have no idea what the real name of it is, or how well it actually works. It's essentially a pair of super duty pipe clamps with threaded rods joining them. The idea is you place the clamps on opposite pipes of the joint you want to separate, and then using the threaded rods force them apart. As for preventing rust, I've painted exhaust systems with various paints with moderate success over the years. Much of the exhaust is too cool to cure a high temperature paint. However, at bends like going over the axle, the pipe gets much hotter and will burn off regular paints. Next painting try (next month in fact) will be with some cold galvanization coating. >>> "James Carruthers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/29/02 01:40PM >>> Hi Listers, What is the typical method of pulling a rusted intermediate pipe from a silencer? I had a quick go at trying to remove it this afternoon - but it seems quite well stuck. The next one to go on will be mild steel again - is there anything I can do to stop, or at least slow the rust down? I only fitted the silencer last christmas, from now on I vow only to buiy stainless steel.... /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
