Exhaust Removal Help

[Bumble-bee]

Hi guys!
I know this has probably been covered but loads of you on here but im looking for some quick tips and pointers about getting the stock exhaust off the 1991 mr2 turbo! It's rusted to hell! And I want to get it done fairly quickly any short cuts or easier roots to take to get this off? I'll be tackling it this weekend and I'll make a bullet point list to follow

Thanks in advance!

Anthony

[SonicSW20]

If it's rusted to the point where it's pretty much fused together:



And if it's particularly stubborn, a bit of this:

[Bumble-bee]

Now I don't have either of them tools but the guys who are going to help me do, but where do I tackle it from? Like im going back to front then front to back but if it's really bad do I grind the bolt off? Or just the section with the bolt?

[Atmu999]

Ad make sure you have new nuts and bolts and gaskets for everything your replacing and go wild lol.. Also may need a stud remover if you grind the end of bolts off going into the head... Good luck 👍

[Bumble-bee]

Yeah Ive got new nuts bolts and gaskets it's literally getting the only one off I know is going to be the problem :') just wondering if anyone has an tips what bits to take off that make it easier

[androo007]

Spend 30 quid on a dremmel and small cutting discs - you'll wonder how you ever lived without one!

[Bumble-bee]

All my money has gone into getting the exhaust lol, Im hoping its going to be easier than some of the stories on here lol

[griffo20022]

I recently changed the exhaust on Jess's mainly because when we bought the car the exhaust was blowing slightly from the join between the silencer and the cat. Going underneath the bolts had completely rotted to nothing where it was blowing from! Luckily the other end of the cat the bolts were fine and took the cat and silencer down in one. I got a chisel and hammer to the old rotten bolts and suddenly the flange from the silencer side just came away. So thats the reason for the exahust change lol. Oh well means we have a stainless steel item and decat now

[Bumble-bee]

That's what im going for! so it's its really back should I put a chisel in between the two parts where the bolt connects them and smack it with a hammer to see if it'll break away? I don't care what happens to it I just want it off lol

[JD]

Just use whatever those pikeys that steal catalytic converters use. They can get your exhaust off in minutes without even jacking up the car

[Bumble-bee]

That's a good point! I'll ask the ones down the road how they'll do it

[C35Rob]

That's a good point! I'll ask the ones down the road how they'll do it

that'll be a little enerpac hydraulic hand pump and some cutting jaws on a long hose.