Well, put the exhaust on finally. Took me too long to even mention the time exactly(too humiliated). This was deffinatly a ghetto backyard install for the books. I thought i would share this experience with everyone:
Reversed car onto ramps
Got out the only power tool available, the hand ginder,
Throw a cutter on it and hacked away, mind the sparks!
To the bolts, rust pieces of junk, busted out the leg power for turning
those(should of bought rust loosener.)
Too bad leg power was too much and bent the last bolt & nut together
Hacksaw fixed that prob. Went to hardware store to find replacement nut.
No soap & water for the rubber thingys, thats for sissy's, heh.
Hmm, piping was hard to get out over the axle(figured that out later).
Fired up without mufflers, Sweeet!
Hmm, leave like that? Nah, can't afford the tickets just yet...
Install the leftside, adjustments were hell. oh the headache.
Install the rightside, oh wait, why can't the piping fit over the axle? AHHH!
"Turtle it!" well that didn't work, Jack and ciderblock did the trick of lifting
the frame long enough to get the damn pipe over the axle.
Adjustment
Adjustment
Adjustment.
The over adjustment happened and the exhaust clamp/nut snapped off
LOOSENING the thing, on both ends of the clamp. Back to the
hardware store for some clamps.
Finally everytihng is mounted, tighted, clearance checked.
Looks perfect, clean and just overall all good.
Clean up tools, stock junk, and lowered the car.
Fired it up and smiled.
"look at that, is the tip sticking out too much on the right?" i try to adjust
tip and....
Piping did not sit right and now with a slight bump the last part of the
exhaust misalligns and hits the axle/gas tank/ bumper.
.... ..... Well, i'll get it after work tomorrow..
:sigh:
Now im not done as of yet, need to rework that piping of the right side and do something about slight leaks here and there. Ghetto yes, but at least i did it myself with my bro and learned a bit more of the mechanics trade. It took my only day off this week and still am happy i didn't pay someone else to do it.That was the whole point, right?
"Turtle it"- to have one get on all fours and lift the frame with the back while the other person trys to manuever the pipe over the axle. Due to the quick exhuastion of the Turtle position, "Turtle it" will be no longer used as an effective method of lifting the rear frame of a car.
Reversed car onto ramps
Got out the only power tool available, the hand ginder,
Throw a cutter on it and hacked away, mind the sparks!
To the bolts, rust pieces of junk, busted out the leg power for turning
those(should of bought rust loosener.)
Too bad leg power was too much and bent the last bolt & nut together
Hacksaw fixed that prob. Went to hardware store to find replacement nut.
No soap & water for the rubber thingys, thats for sissy's, heh.
Hmm, piping was hard to get out over the axle(figured that out later).
Fired up without mufflers, Sweeet!
Hmm, leave like that? Nah, can't afford the tickets just yet...
Install the leftside, adjustments were hell. oh the headache.
Install the rightside, oh wait, why can't the piping fit over the axle? AHHH!
"Turtle it!" well that didn't work, Jack and ciderblock did the trick of lifting
the frame long enough to get the damn pipe over the axle.
Adjustment
Adjustment
Adjustment.
The over adjustment happened and the exhaust clamp/nut snapped off
LOOSENING the thing, on both ends of the clamp. Back to the
hardware store for some clamps.
Finally everytihng is mounted, tighted, clearance checked.
Looks perfect, clean and just overall all good.
Clean up tools, stock junk, and lowered the car.
Fired it up and smiled.
"look at that, is the tip sticking out too much on the right?" i try to adjust
tip and....
Piping did not sit right and now with a slight bump the last part of the
exhaust misalligns and hits the axle/gas tank/ bumper.
.... ..... Well, i'll get it after work tomorrow..
:sigh:
Now im not done as of yet, need to rework that piping of the right side and do something about slight leaks here and there. Ghetto yes, but at least i did it myself with my bro and learned a bit more of the mechanics trade. It took my only day off this week and still am happy i didn't pay someone else to do it.That was the whole point, right?
"Turtle it"- to have one get on all fours and lift the frame with the back while the other person trys to manuever the pipe over the axle. Due to the quick exhuastion of the Turtle position, "Turtle it" will be no longer used as an effective method of lifting the rear frame of a car.
