By making a mock-up of a muffler with
this cardboard box, it gives me an idea of just how much clearance I'll
have to work with. Not much...as you can tell. The box is 4 1/4" X
8" X 16" which is the size of most mufflers that I wanted to
buy, but after seeing how much room I had left over, I might be buying
one a little shorter. The distance between the end of the muffler (right
side of box) is getting very close to the cross member that I have to go
over. This means that the exhaust pipe will have to make a sharp bend to
go over it and I'll need a little more room to achieve this, so this is
one more reason to buy a shorter one. I'll also be gaining some room on
the sides because the mufflers will be oval (not rectangular like my
mock-up) so that helps.
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If you look at the top part of the
"X" member, you can see the brake line and get a better idea
of what I'm talking about. Now you can see why I want to move them away
from those hot tin cans.
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Here is one of the rear brake lines
marked and ready to cut. Now this line is one of two that I had to make
when I was relocating my rear sway-bar. I hated to cut them because
doing things twice sucks. After flaring the ends of both lines, I
reinstalled them and was now ready to work on the shorter one that feeds
them both.
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Here is the shorter one that I was
talking about earlier. I was going to cut both ends off and reuse the
fittings for my new line. The bent welding rod next to it was the
pattern that I needed.....really!
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