🚀 go-pugleaf

egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:

>In article <26AUG199207522239@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
>>
>>At any rate, I don't think I'd buy a car whose exhaust system
>>can come off as a unit like that. The lack of bends in it 
>>(except for the ones that routed it around projections on
>>the underside of the car) suggests that it wasn't wrenched off,
>>but just popped off. Incidentally, there is no sign of a
>>catalytic converter, either. Could it have been right next to
>>the engine? 

>I always thought that exhaust pipes are relatively loose: they
>are not welded into the car, but are attached with a few fastners.
>I don't know.

Yes...mufflers are attached with brackets.  The bracket would certainly be
much more likely to give under stress than any other portion of the
undercarraige than the brackets are welded/bolted to.

 -Steve
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