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[05omegav6]

Exhaust on the trolley was starting to get noisy, so new cat back system ordered from our Polish friends...

Exhaust is the original one and was blowing merrily from back box, centre box and flexible pipe.

Centre pipe and back box liberated without issue, but flexible pipe is rusted solid to the cat pipe.

Bolt heads are cut off, but even with the car jacked by the flexi side of the flange, it isn't shifting

Any ideas?

[Nick W]

Get the whole flange red-hot, and use a big hammer.

But you don't have that option, so free it off with some surgical angle grinder work.

[05omegav6]

Get the whole flange red-hot, and use a big hammer.

But you don't have that option, so free it off with some surgical angle grinder work.

That was the conclusion I reached too... Sliced the face of the flexi flange next to the gasket, managed to open up the centre of the bottom edge enough to get chisel started, then balljoint splitter... Nearside end starting to give, but offside end still fast...

Another attack with the grinder to liberate that edge of the flange and...

Grinder 1, Head 0.

Currently in A+E

[Lazydocker]

Get the whole flange red-hot, and use a big hammer.

But you don't have that option, so free it off with some surgical angle grinder work.

That was the conclusion I reached too... Sliced the face of the flexi flange next to the gasket, managed to open up the centre of the bottom edge enough to get chisel started, then balljoint splitter... Nearside end starting to give, but offside end still fast...

Another attack with the grinder to liberate that edge of the flange and...

Grinder 1, Head 0.

Currently in A+E

Oops... Hope they tidy you up soon and it hasn't ruined your good looks

[Nick W]

Get the whole flange red-hot, and use a big hammer.

But you don't have that option, so free it off with some surgical angle grinder work.

That was the conclusion I reached too... Sliced the face of the flexi flange next to the gasket, managed to open up the centre of the bottom edge enough to get chisel started, then balljoint splitter... Nearside end starting to give, but offside end still fast...

Another attack with the grinder to liberate that edge of the flange and...

Grinder 1, Head 0.

Currently in A+E

Prat  


I can say that, as my black eye, caused by the chisel flying out and hitting me in the face, has now faded.


The grinder was for exhaust surgery, not a DIY lobotomy.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I'm sure the forum guidelines advise that a responsible adult is present when using angle grinders?     

[BazaJT]

Flippin' heck!Angle grinder meets head is not a good combination.Hope you're ok.

[05omegav6]

A couple of flesh wounds... On a scale of one to dead, it barely registers a 2.5... Fortunately I turned it off before it hit the floor... might have been nearer the dead end

[Sir Tigger KC]

A couple of flesh wounds... On a scale of one to dead, it barely registers a 2.5... Fortunately I turned it off before it hit the floor... might have been nearer the dead end

How many stitches? 

[Nick W]

I'm sure the forum guidelines advise that a responsible adult is present when using angle grinders? 

My  handy tip of the day is to ensure that the responsible adult who can drive you to the hospital isn't a wimp who faints at the sight of blood


I'm sure you can all figure out how I know that, and 25 years later I still have the scars. Ian is still a wimp.

[05omegav6]

A couple of flesh wounds... On a scale of one to dead, it barely registers a 2.5... Fortunately I turned it off before it hit the floor... might have been nearer the dead end

How many stitches? 

Three hours in and none yet

[05omegav6]

I'm sure the forum guidelines advise that a responsible adult is present when using angle grinders? 

My  handy tip of the day is to ensure that the responsible adult who can drive you to the hospital isn't a wimp who faints at the sight of blood


I'm sure you can all figure out how I know that, and 25 years later I still have the scars. Ian is still a wimp.

Fortunately neither of the paramedics fainted... Wouldn't have dialed 999, but seeing bone is rather off-putting 

Might have a little job for you Nick...

[Nick W]

I'm sure the forum guidelines advise that a responsible adult is present when using angle grinders? 

My  handy tip of the day is to ensure that the responsible adult who can drive you to the hospital isn't a wimp who faints at the sight of blood


I'm sure you can all figure out how I know that, and 25 years later I still have the scars. Ian is still a wimp.

Fortunately neither of the paramedics fainted... Wouldn't have dialed 999, but seeing bone is rather off-putting 

That's what Ian said, but they weren't his fingers!

[05omegav6]

I would laugh at that but my nose hurts

[STEMO]

If you're going to die, do it for something worth it. Not a ford focus