Or breaking components themselves. PO of my latest truck tried to correct leaking sound from a rusted EGR system by tightening the ever living mess out of the Y pipe. Ended up cracking one of the manifolds clean in two. Then he sold it to me. Bill Robertson #5939 >--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxx> wrote: > Do not try to correct an exhaust leak by tightening things up. You > will just wind up breaking fasteners. Although it may be possible to > fix the one gasket that has failed the better answer is to remove the > entire exhaust system and replace ALL gaskets. Exhaust work is one of > the hardest and messiest mechanical jobs that you can do. It is best > left to someone experienced in this type of work. If you are not > careful you will break all of the fasteners trying to remove the > exhaust parts making the job even bigger and messier. > David Teitelbaum > vin 10757 > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/