Changing flexi pipe simplified how-to

Step 1, get your phone out.

Step 2, phone a garage and get them to do it.

Step 3, put your phone away.


What a job!:bang: :rant: :coat:

Step 4: Get your wallet out & pay.
Step 5: Spend the entire journey home saying you've been ripped off.
Step 6: Spend the next day wishing you'd done it yourself, as the cabin fills with fumes because it wasn't done properly.
Step 7: Get underneath & see what a balls up the garage made.
Step 8: Do it properly yourself.
Step 9: Sit down to a nice drink.
Stop 10: However your wallet is still nipping your arse to remind you that you've been stuffed.

Slash your hand on the steel gasket while rushing to get it over the studs and fill those latex gloves with your finest red...but still the end result was worth it..keep those garage bills away.:beer:

Ramps essential..

I had ramps, the knowledge, the tools and a nice warm and dry garage to do it in but it was still a ball ache of a job due to rusted blobs that used to be bolts and previous owners bodges!!

It's a whole new level of tightness when somebody goes to all the trouble of fabricating and welding a strap to the back box rather than spend a tenner on a new strap. :spank:

Must be me having a bad day.

if i can remember i took the silenser and cat off in 1 chunk....cant remember if the flexi was attached......anyway studs and corroded nuts were cut off and drilled out flanges for new bolts..taking the system away from the car and working standing up with the radio on relaxed with a drink and little breaks inbetween .....starting the car up with the system taken off is one of the loudest engines ive heard for a while......sorry nieghbours...didnt mean to knock you out of your deck chairs......only thing i need now is one of those support brackets on the backbox..

I found it easier to remove the outlet manifold and let it drop down, it gives you room to get at the bolt that is hard to get to at the rear centre, all in a days work. but as you said still a pain in the butt.

Just done my flexi pipe and as THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS ANDY THE TYRE MAN said it's a ball ache of a job. My process consisted of the the following steps.

1. Put car up on ramps to find where noise is coming from.
2. Order back box ( stainless steel ) and cat.
3. Attack rust on bolts with drill attachment and spray with penetrating fluid over the next 2 days while awaiting parts.
4. Continue to disturb the neighbours for the next 2 days when i leave for work at the back of midnight.
5.Parts arrive so next day after finishing night-shift begin to dismantle exhaust.
6. After 2 hours of getting nowhere my grinder came out and took the nuts off at the flexi and cat.Still couldn't separate them until the flexi part came away from the rest of the pipe.
7. Fitted back box and cat, ordered new flexi pipe and cycled to work that night. ( downhill all the way ) Just about killed myself cycling back up hill on the way home. Neighbour was laughing at me as i walked up the last hill to my home pushing my bike.
8.New flexi pipe arrived within an hour of arriving home so went out and fitted it in less than half an hour. No way was i cycling back up that hill the next day.

Moral of the story is that unless your changing the whole exhaust then leave it to the professionals. Coming from me that's good advice as i'm as tight as they come.
Read somewhere on this site that the support bracket on the back box is not necessary,I have to agree. Exhaust is solid it's been on for over a week and it hasn't moved.
Oh and good luck in getting the sensor off the flexi pipe. Another reason to use the professionals