magnaflow install
#23
03-21-2007 | 02:51 AM
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RE: magnaflow install
My Magnaflow cat Back arrived yesterday. The installation guide recommends cutting the stock exhaust right behind the middle muffler. I'm like WTF!!
So I crawled up under it and indeed it is a one piece system behind the front flange. I was wondering if it was possible to pull it out in one piece, looked possible but wasn't sure. I don't want to cut the stock exhaust in half so I'll follow your lead on starting at the front and jacking up the back to open up the space between the axle and the bottom of the chassis.
Can you tell me where you placed the jack to lift the body and not the axle?? I'm not at home (on the road again) so I can't check. Seems like there's a scissors jack for the axle or is there a lift point on the body? I've not read my manual that close, sorry.
Thanks again for the tips. I was looking at the hangers and the nipples on the new exhaust. I was concerned how hard it would be to get the stock hangers off the rubber mounts, they look dang tight.... any tips on removing the hangers other than some astro glide and WD40 and tugging really hard??
I'll probably install the Magnaflow this weekend. Get some pics up if I get the thing on, the quality seems really nice and the chrome engraved tips are too sweet.
So I crawled up under it and indeed it is a one piece system behind the front flange. I was wondering if it was possible to pull it out in one piece, looked possible but wasn't sure. I don't want to cut the stock exhaust in half so I'll follow your lead on starting at the front and jacking up the back to open up the space between the axle and the bottom of the chassis.
Can you tell me where you placed the jack to lift the body and not the axle?? I'm not at home (on the road again) so I can't check. Seems like there's a scissors jack for the axle or is there a lift point on the body? I've not read my manual that close, sorry.
Thanks again for the tips. I was looking at the hangers and the nipples on the new exhaust. I was concerned how hard it would be to get the stock hangers off the rubber mounts, they look dang tight.... any tips on removing the hangers other than some astro glide and WD40 and tugging really hard??
I'll probably install the Magnaflow this weekend. Get some pics up if I get the thing on, the quality seems really nice and the chrome engraved tips are too sweet.
#25
03-21-2007 | 08:06 PM
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Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 159
RE: magnaflow install
ORIGINAL: HUMMER DRIVER
My Magnaflow cat Back arrived yesterday. The installation guide recommends cutting the stock exhaust right behind the middle muffler. I'm like WTF!!
So I crawled up under it and indeed it is a one piece system behind the front flange. I was wondering if it was possible to pull it out in one piece, looked possible but wasn't sure. I don't want to cut the stock exhaust in half so I'll follow your lead on starting at the front and jacking up the back to open up the space between the axle and the bottom of the chassis.
Can you tell me where you placed the jack to lift the body and not the axle?? I'm not at home (on the road again) so I can't check. Seems like there's a scissors jack for the axle or is there a lift point on the body? I've not read my manual that close, sorry.
Thanks again for the tips. I was looking at the hangers and the nipples on the new exhaust. I was concerned how hard it would be to get the stock hangers off the rubber mounts, they look dang tight.... any tips on removing the hangers other than some astro glide and WD40 and tugging really hard??
I'll probably install the Magnaflow this weekend. Get some pics up if I get the thing on, the quality seems really nice and the chrome engraved tips are too sweet.
My Magnaflow cat Back arrived yesterday. The installation guide recommends cutting the stock exhaust right behind the middle muffler. I'm like WTF!!
So I crawled up under it and indeed it is a one piece system behind the front flange. I was wondering if it was possible to pull it out in one piece, looked possible but wasn't sure. I don't want to cut the stock exhaust in half so I'll follow your lead on starting at the front and jacking up the back to open up the space between the axle and the bottom of the chassis.
Can you tell me where you placed the jack to lift the body and not the axle?? I'm not at home (on the road again) so I can't check. Seems like there's a scissors jack for the axle or is there a lift point on the body? I've not read my manual that close, sorry.
Thanks again for the tips. I was looking at the hangers and the nipples on the new exhaust. I was concerned how hard it would be to get the stock hangers off the rubber mounts, they look dang tight.... any tips on removing the hangers other than some astro glide and WD40 and tugging really hard??
I'll probably install the Magnaflow this weekend. Get some pics up if I get the thing on, the quality seems really nice and the chrome engraved tips are too sweet.
#26
03-21-2007 | 09:48 PM
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RE: magnaflow install
ORIGINAL: Dennis
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ORIGINAL: ChevyHighPerformance
I put the jack on the frame in front of the passinger rear wheel. You won't need to lift the rear wheel of the ground.
I put the jack on the frame in front of the passinger rear wheel. You won't need to lift the rear wheel of the ground.
#27
03-21-2007 | 10:39 PM
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RE: magnaflow install
Hey you asked, what else you could you do besides using Astro-glide or WD40 and without tugging (is that a close enough quote?)...Seems to me the only thing left easy was to cut them out...Besides, Jacking it up is only half the battle...you didn't ask how to jack it up
