Removing Stock Muffler

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  1. Chris Kirby

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    I am removing my stock muffler and putting in a glasspack to make it rumble.

    I have took the clamps off, but I cannot get the muffler off the exhaust pipe... I tried Slick 50 to loosin it, i used plumber wrench to try and twist, I have used a hand torch to try and heat the pipe up and twist it also...

    what is easiest way to remove this damn muffler off the exhaust pipe????
     
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    The clamp most likely indented the muffler and the pipe. Cut muffler off at the pipe with a disc cutting blade, or score the muffler lightly along that length to get a small chisel started under the end and peel it along the score line.
     
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    easiest is to cut it. Autozone and most parts stores loans a tool for this. It is a chain of round cutting blades that you wrap around the pipe and the with the handle you move it back and forth. Works prety good and dosn't mess up the pipe sou you can slip the new muffler on.
     
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    you sure you want to put that glass pack on? Might not sound quite like you want.
     
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    its on the car now, you should try it, it sounds really nice.

    5.0 engines sound so nice with glass pack, really deep
     
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    I had the single glasspack on my car back in the day when I had the stock single exhaust. And my roommate has one on the 74 2door I sold him. It sounds pretty good without costing alot of money. And it's loud enough that I can hear it when he comes home so that if I'm messing around with the girlfriend in the living room I have time to move to the bedroom ;)
     
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    This is not the proper way to do it, but when mine was stuck on there I beat the S#^T out of the muffler with a rubber mallet. The muffler was toast but it eventually came off.
     
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    ahh, but isn't it so satisfying to beat the f*ck out of something with a big hammer?
     

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