Any ideas welcome

[davemac250]

92 pre-cat and trying to fit an AST cherry bomb exhaust.

I'll be fked if I can get it on.

The Y-piece and the exhaust appear to be the same bloody diameter.

I've put an extra cut too and bottom of the Y to open it out a little, sanded out the inside of the Y piece and run a sander round the outside of the exhaust pipe.

Can't get any real pressure on the exhaust to force it into the Y-piece at the moment the best I've managed is about a half inch in the hole. (Make your own jokes)

Anyone have a wonderful secret method to get this sodding thing on before I resort to the big hammer approach??

[TvrJohn]

Take it to an exhaust fabricators who have a hydraulic expanding mandrel, which can open the tube end

[Colin RedGriff]

Are you fitting it the original y piece ot the ACT one? Give Tim at ACT a call he will probably know what to do. He's a very helpful guy.

[Alan461]

Last time I had to do this I put eight cuts in the outer sleeve with a hacksaw, made a satisfactory union then sealed the open sections with a mig and ground it all flush.
Not sure if this was the correct way to do it but it was easy and made a successful resulting join.

Edited by Alan461 on Wednesday 12th August 22:32

[davemac250]

It's off to a motorbike exhaust company.

£10 to have the pipe expanded and I can get on with swearing about other bits.....

[davemac250]

The honest answer is fk knows.

It's a long story involving multiple cock ups by our 'preferred' parts supplier.

It certainly doesn't go outside the y-piece. It just fits inside, just.

It'll fit by lunch tomorrow. ;-)