I'm sure I got a short.

[bobbywalter]

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[ShhhhhDougsHere]

@bobbywalter I see your points and agree mostly with them.

However for a 1994 and being a rust belt truck with a salvaged title.
Which I'm sure you know means that at some point in the past it was considered totaled.
Making it now a salvaged my truck.

It's really pretty damn clean.

The exhaust is actually also pretty clean except for those three flanges. It does need some new shocks and some other parts replaced.
It needs both front leaf spring brackets replaced.
The brakes need replaced all the way around. But they're not so bad to make it not drivable.

The body itself I only seen three rust spots.
1 of those is a bullet hole where the paint came off about 3 inches all the way around the hole making about a 6 inch diameter wound that has surface rust.

The 2nd of the rust spots is underneath the bed liner at the rear of the bed, about center maybe a foot in from the tailgate.
There's a little crack that's about an inch and a half long and the edges of it has rust on it.

The 3rd rust spot is on the front of the hood about center and it's maybe 2 in long. And it's just surface rust as well.

I'll look it over closer in the near future and take some pictures.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

@bobbywalter those do look like some good bits.
But that's money I don't have and most likely won't have anytime in the near future.

 

[bobbywalter]

@bobbywalter I see your points and agree mostly with them.

However for a 1994 and being a rust belt truck with a salvaged title.
Which I'm sure you know means that at some point in the past it was considered totaled.
Making it now a salvaged my truck.

It's really pretty damn clean.

The exhaust is actually also pretty clean except for those three flanges. It does need some new shocks and some other parts replaced.
It needs both front leaf spring brackets replaced.
The brakes need replaced all the way around. But they're not so bad to make it not drivable.

The body itself I only seen three rust spots.
1 of those is a bullet hole where the paint came off about 3 inches all the way around the hole making about a 6 inch diameter wound that has surface rust.

The 2nd of the rust spots is underneath the bed liner at the rear of the bed, about center maybe a foot in from the tailgate.
There's a little crack that's about an inch and a half long and the edges of it has rust on it.

The 3rd rust spot is on the front of the hood about center and it's maybe 2 in long. And it's just surface rust as well.

I'll look it over closer in the near future and take some pictures.

well....apparently you have never seen my junk. i run salvaged titles as well.

and you are totally missing the point. i live in the worst of the rust belt. metro detroit.

rust belt means exactly that. nothing stays nice with your exhaust system...or frame.

those three exhaust areas are always the issue.

if the bolts...or if there is something that looks like a bolt comes out....hurray.

i dont expect that. dont even have that as a goal....but if it comes apart will live with the happy accident.

if the converters are rotten and the bolts shot but solidly together....you do a slip cut post converter and snap off the studs at the manifolds....and drop er out of there........

and just leave the manifolds alone. unless the manifolds were cracked or had snapped off bolts already in the head, you just leave it....

this is a minutes thing. no hassle....no concerns. you know its gonna be a trainwreck and that is the cost effective way deal with it in time and money..

its a bit of a pia to get the cuff on the manifold side but way easier than anything else.

reassembly is a minutes thing.


think of it this way.

it should have took longer to fill the transmission up and burp it, then to R&R the rust belt level exhaust.

rust belt level means it is not worth the effort to put a whole new system on that will be a rotten pos in 2 years worse than the 30year old oem because the after market diy crap isnt even close.


this is post facto advise....but has always been my advice. i do this ....ALLOT.

i feel bad that you took such an ass whoopin on this.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

@bobbywalter
I for sure did take an ass whooping

I took the ass whooping because I'm broke.
And I'm totally out of shape and have arthritis in all my joints.

Most of the down time my truck has had being broke down is because I had to buy 1 part at a time. And I don't want to assemble one piece at a time until I had all the parts so I could just assemble everything.

I also had to wait for my brother's scheduled to open up when it comes to the initial using the jack to remove the transmission.
And then using the jack to put the transmission back in place.

I couldn't afford to buy new exhaust manifolds.
I had to drill out them studs.
So I can now use bolts and nuts in their place like your talking about.

I'd be willing to bet my exhaust is factory and therefore been on there since 1994.
Which makes it even harder to get apart.

I'm out of shape and have arthritis in all my joints. So I couldn't get the drill and drill bit to put enough pressure on the studs while the manifolds were mounted to the motor.

I'm working outside with my truck up on jack stands, which with my arthritis made things worse.
And I have to deal with the weather as well.

So all of that combined did kick my ass for sure.

A friend of my brother gave me some advice the other day that I wish I would have thought of before I even tried to take the nuts off the exhaust manifold studs.

He said he would have never even tried to unloosen them nuts. He would have just used his sawzall in the middle of the straight parts of the y-pipe coming down from the manifold to cut the y-pipe on both sides. And then just used two exhaust pipe sleeves and some exhaust clamps when it was time to reassemble.

If I would have thought of that.
It would have cost me a little more money for the sleeves and clamps. But I might have saved money in the long run.
Because I wouldn't have spent all that money on the drill bits.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

Well I'm sorry to have to report that,
I didn't go to work today and I'm not going to be working on my truck either.

I'm paying for all the stuff I did yesterday.
I'm in a lot more pain then I usually am.
And my joints are all stiff as hell.

It took me twice as long today to get out of my bed then it normally does.

And that's normally at minimum an hour job.

 

[bobbywalter]

Well I'm sorry to have to report that,
I didn't go to work today and I'm not going to be working on my truck either.

I'm paying for all the stuff I did yesterday.
I'm in a lot more pain then I usually am.
And my joints are all stiff as hell.

It took me twice as long today to get out of my bed then it normally does.

And that's normally at minimum an hour job.

i have that problem. i do excercises based off of tom morrison on u tooobz.


keeps me going.