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Duration: Replacing an Oil Pan Gasket Nobody likes an oil drip! Classic Car Distributor Cap Inspection George Vondriska visually inspects each part of the distributor cap — the cap itself, the router, and the points. Facebook Youtube Twitter. I have a pair of 2" exhaustpipes on my '57 Chrysler which I cut and removed the crappy barfing glasspack mufflers out of. Now I was trying to expand the pipes to slip in an extention and a slightly shorter muffler, but the expander-tool I have for it wasn't able to actually expand the pipe, it just made the pipe perfectly round again.
I thought it looked sturdy enough for the job, but the force needed to stretch the pipe couldn't be created with it. Now this was supposed to be a quick solution for the local DMV so I will be welding everything now, but in the future I would like to be able to do this myself.
So, manual exhaustpipe expanders, which ones do actually work? BigBlockMopar , Oct 6, Joined: Dec 15, Posts: Profile Page. Joined: Apr 2, Posts: 16, Profile Page. I've never found a manual one that worked worth a shit. Though they work great to make them round again. And that can be handy. Joined: Jan 23, Posts: 2, Profile Page. Last edited: Oct 6, Joined: Feb 26, Posts: Profile Page. I was thinking the same thing untill I found out I could buy collars with double expanded ends to splice non-expanded to non expanded.
To mate dissimilar tubes I've also slit a slightly larger tube overlapping it then welding the seam back up. The gas actually makes a better less brittle weld. The only expander's I've seen to work well are hydraulic. Joined: Apr 17, Posts: 3, Profile Page. I used a Craftsman one and it's no better. One of the bands broke the first time I used it. Deyomatic , Oct 6, Joined: May 24, Posts: 2, Profile Page. I've destroyed a couple of those myself using the impact on them.
Better to use the adapter probably, though I was wondering if heating the pipe might help the expander? Joined: Oct 9, Posts: 21, Profile Page. I don't really know what the correct device is They simply are not capable of that. They are just to clean up the end and get it round and functional. Bruce Lancaster , Oct 6, Joined: May 5, Posts: 1, Profile Page. Joined: Sep 23, Posts: 49, Profile Page. You ain't gonna do it with a manual tool. Joined: Nov 26, Posts: 2, Profile Page. I use a Victor blue tip wrench and a coat hanger!
Unclee , Oct 6, Joined: Oct 1, Posts: 4, Profile Page. Use an impact wrench, and soak the whole expander and pipe in spray lube. When the tool strips out the threads on the end of the expander, take it apart and just use a nut instead. You'll have to replace the nut every couple of uses but it does work. Personally I hate em and prefer to make a slip collar out of tubing and weld it up.
Shifty Shifterton , Oct 6, Joined: Aug 8, Posts: 3, Profile Page. HUTH makes a portable expander called the mighty mate. I think they are around a grand or so. It is welded in other places aswell and the only way to take it off is to lower the rearaxle about 3 feet I want to upgrade the system after the car is legally tagged so I can just drive to their shop.
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