craveman85
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The flange between the cat and the rest of my exhaust system rotted out. Should I weld a new flange in there or should I just weld in a piece of pipe between them? What about those woven flex pipes?
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The flange connection makes it easier to remove the rest of the system during maintenance or replacement. I'd say it's your call.
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I doubt it will ever be removed for maintenance and if I end up replacing the muffler I'll just take my recip to the whole thing. I just didn't know if making it into one rigid piece was going to cause cracks or breaks somewhere.
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I did put a short piece of flex in my system. But I put it right after the flange at the engine. My thoughts on that was to isolate the exhaust from physical engine vibrations. I am not an exhaust engineer though.
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