Catback removal

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Is it possibel to remove the flow tubes, mufflers, and tailpipes as one piece without doing too much disassembly? Maybe even jsut lettign the rear end hang down to make more clearance?

 

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I have heard its possible, but a REAL PITA.

 

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i just cut my tails where they started to bend up over the axel...total piece of cake after that ...are you planning on putting what you currently have back on?? or something?

 

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I am looking at a pair of muffs with dumps to run in the summer (top down) then I can put the full length back on for inspections and winters...

 

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You could try warlocks.... then you can go back and forth without much work at all. That's what I plan to do. Although that bypasses the muffler as well.

 

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If I were you I would get a shop to weld some flanges between the tails and the mufflers. That way you wouldnt have to fight it.

 

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94-302-vert said:

I am looking at a pair of muffs with dumps to run in the summer (top down) then I can put the full length back on for inspections and winters...

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pm drakesdad he has a set of flowmasters with dumps he took off his car

 

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So you cant pass emissions unless you have tailpipes?

 

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Try... puting the rear of the car on jackstands, then use a floor jack under the pumpkin so you can raise or lower it. Then take off the springs, shocks, quads and use the floor jack to lower the rear end down slowly, and see if that gives you enough space to get the catback out.

 

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I am working with Drakesdad for his muffs/turndowns...

BUT since it is a vert I need tailpipes... Also with my son in the car (2.5 years old) I can't have a lot of resonance so I need tailpipes when winter comes and the top is up most of the time...


So is it possible to remove the pipes without disassembling everything around the rear end? (shocks, quads, springs)?

 

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Probably not unless your tailpipes have a flange just behind the rear axle where it starts to straighten-out. My Mac system has them, but they're not that common. If the tails are 1-piece up to the muffler, you'll probaby have to lower the axle or cut the tails somewhere.

 

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....where your tails connect to your mufflers theres not a clamp there? if so you can undo it and probley twist them out ..you will need to get the rear of the car high though or you will smash and rub your tips...when i put my new cat back on i started at the rear and twisted them all around and got them into place doing it...so i would imagaine you could work them out just the same.....first thing i would do is undo the flanges up where they connect to the h pipe then undo the rear clamp behind the muffler take the mufflers out then start pulling and twisting the tails out

 

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Nope.. Muffs were welded in place...