Just in time for the weekend, a humorous "how-to" for redneck exhaust repair. I don't normally consider myself a "redneck", but hey, what ever works right?

Problem:


Repair:
Step 1 - Get beer


Step 2 - Open & drink


Step 3 - Mangle can


Step 4 - Install hi-tech repair


Now repeat steps 1 & 2 as many times as needed.

 

wow. I hope that's only temporary.

 

LOL Very nice!!! Quite clever indeed. Did it seal well? Looks good actually, doesn't match the pipe, but what's that matter?

 

i bet that can out last the rest of the pipe lol, just hope it dont get over 750 deg. thats the melting point of aluminum.

 

nice job ..! but too precise to be redneck ..

redneck you would use coat hangers instead of clamps (actually work quite well.. )

 

i pulled back andforth between steps 1an 2 13 time am considerd drunk know?? that dont look like to bad a fix

 

nahh now it's a dutch-american truck

 

Yes, it is temporary, and yes, it did seal just fine. I started it up and rev'ed it a bit and it is just as quiet as before it broke.

It is 1/2 way back in the exhaust so I doubt it will get that hot. I have a DynoMax cat-back + high-flow converter on order, but the intermediate pipe (the one that is broken) and converter are back-ordered.

I was also motivated by 2 things; First I was sick of smelling the small amount of exhaust that was coming up the side. Second, I got popped for a speeding ticket, 44 in a 25 & the car next to me was going faster than I was. The first thing the cop says to me is "I could hear you coming a mile away", so just because I was louder, I get the ticket. Useless cops.

Sorry about the foreign beer. If it makes you feel any better, I was wearing my Miller Lite tee-shirt while making the repair. I felt it made me look the part.

 

Nope that doesn't make me feel better, the president of miller brewing company donates a portion of hte company profits to anti gun groups, thus a real anti redneck choice of beer.

seen that done many times works pretty well actually.

 

WHAAAAAT!!!!???? We don't take kindly to dem anti-gun kinds around here.

I didn't know that. Free tee shirt has now been demoted to "really dirty jobs" only.

 

i got almost a year out of a canned vegetble can aluminum gets weak too fast

um is that a rice burner in the backround i see????

 

Hey, if you drink enough beer you might be able to build a whole system!!!

 

Underside of your truck seems real clean for a Virginia truck G2.

 

v.a. nots that bad on rust unless you live in mountains or right on the coast. they rust away at about the same rate they do here in nc. (i know i have family in v.a. and visit quite often) most n.c. cars rust away from neglect more than anything, though thats just about any where i imagine.

 

resourcefulness is definitely an attribute... and in this situation cheaper too!