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Trying to remove the silencers before Jet Hot Coating.

Found what was gonna be the perfect tool: the handle to the hydraulic jack. It fits in there, and has a pin on the end of hit, so I stuck it in there, hooked the pin on the lip of the silencer 8" deep in there, and tugged. No budging. 3" diameter new chrome tips are spot welded over the original exhaust tips, and the silencers musta been welded in at the ANSA Factory as Marlin Jack said. So, I got a screwdriver and clinked it on the inside of the silencer, to see if it would ring true or have a suppression of the ring such as steel wool buffering the harmonics of the metal. And that's what seems to be the case, a packing material preventing a tone from eminating like a tuning fork. Just a dull clank, no clanging.

These silencers must have packing, and if that packing gets Jet Hot Coated, its just gonna clog, restricting exhaust flow and making it loud at the same time. And since its just got chrome tips over the ends, grinding off the welds and removing the tips is not gonna enable the extraction of the silencer units. If the silencers were not packed with sound absorbing material, then it would be OK to Jet Hot Coat the silencers too.

So, when I go to get the entire exhaust system Jet Hot Coated, I'm gonna ask them if it's possible NOT TO DIP THE CHROME TIPS, cause it'll ruin the silencers. Gotta do some checking with the vendor. Dip the entire Headers to coat inside & out, but only dip the back half of the exhaust system up to the bottom edge of the chrome tips.

But I want to drive this thing while the weather's nice. So I'm gonna do this project a little later. But if I hadn't thought this thing out in advance, I'd just be dissapointed because I'd hate to do Jet Hot Coating, just to have to cut the tips off and weld on the new Jet Hot Coating surface.

Any other ideas or experiences on Jet Hot Coating the entire exhaust system, while preserving the silencers and chrome tips?

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