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jaros44sr · 10-11-2007, 05:22 PM

Saga Continues:

The new challenge is to hang my 2 1/2" ramshorn dual exhaust. Meinke bent the pipes, just took one side over to them as a pattern, and they bent it up-not mandrel bent, but better than 2"- $200.00 for 4 pcs. to the mufflers. Pc. of cake so far, then there was the hangers...

After searching old FAQ's, and posts pertaining to exhausts, to no avale, I called GMC dealers, talked to board members, Advance Auto, and called NAPA. The NAPA store came thru with the parts, part #35517 and part #35209, not sure if these are exactly right but they will work for now. Flanges, $9.00 each, that pull pipe to the manifolds were located off a corvette site, man those guys spend twice as much for a manifold, $130.00 a side, mine $130.00 for the set shipped to my house from the west coast, Frank's Pickemup

One problem still to solve, since the Jimmy only came with single exhaust, I have to fabricate or locate, the intermediate bracket. I'm thinking the P/U truck guys might use this same bracket, seems there are alot of trashed trucks out there and not many Jimmys

Anyways here are some early pics. of where I'm starting. The first pic. shows a hanger that gets welded to the pipe, but I couldn't locate the rubber pc. that gets bolted to the intermediate bracket, so I went another way

Ugly, huh!!! PO strikes again

10-11-2007, 05:22 PM	#225
jaros44sr Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Philadelphia, Pa. 19454 Posts: 9,422	Re: PO has me PO'd Saga Continues: The new challenge is to hang my 2 1/2" ramshorn dual exhaust. Meinke bent the pipes, just took one side over to them as a pattern, and they bent it up-not mandrel bent, but better than 2"- $200.00 for 4 pcs. to the mufflers. Pc. of cake so far, then there was the hangers... After searching old FAQ's, and posts pertaining to exhausts, to no avale, I called GMC dealers, talked to board members, Advance Auto, and called NAPA. The NAPA store came thru with the parts, part #35517 and part #35209, not sure if these are exactly right but they will work for now. Flanges, $9.00 each, that pull pipe to the manifolds were located off a corvette site, man those guys spend twice as much for a manifold, $130.00 a side, mine $130.00 for the set shipped to my house from the west coast, Frank's Pickemup One problem still to solve, since the Jimmy only came with single exhaust, I have to fabricate or locate, the intermediate bracket. I'm thinking the P/U truck guys might use this same bracket, seems there are alot of trashed trucks out there and not many Jimmys Anyways here are some early pics. of where I'm starting. The first pic. shows a hanger that gets welded to the pipe, but I couldn't locate the rubber pc. that gets bolted to the intermediate bracket, so I went another way Ugly, huh!!! PO strikes again __________________ Semper Fi...Uncle Sam, you da man All parts offered to help are free, unless otherwise noted Dont try this stuff in my build thread, unless you have 55 years of mechanical OTJ training SAFETY FIRST AS usual, off topic They say your mind goes second, can't remember the first Jim Last edited by jaros44sr; 10-12-2007 at 04:56 PM.