Well, $85.92 with tax, 2 gaskets, and some RTV silicone sealant, my exhaust leak is fixed.... so I thought. I'm moving the intermetiate pipe around to take the old resonator assembly off, and I hear a crunching sound (as in the intermediate pipe is rusted on the inside of the piping and i just make it worse (see picts))...
Anyway, the "resonator" assembly was like $70 from O'reilleys and they had to order it obviously...
It's got a "heat jacket" instead of a "heat shield" so it said I didn't need to use the existing head shield. The new resonator is a lot smaller, and has an extra set of hangers....unless my car just didn't have the hanger braskets there (or taken off at one time). The old resonator as soon as I stood it upright, a bunch of crap came out of it (rust, etc)...
It looks as if someone had tried to "patch" it before with J.B. weld ot the like and it came off. It's like that on both sides of the resonator.
Now I'm off to order the $30 intermediate pipe!
I think it was bubbling up already, but I made it worse... it's on the other bend as well.
New installed resonator assembly...
That's where the larger of the leaks was coming from... My guess is that if it's not the original resonator, it's the second one... but with 193k miles, who knows...
It's nice to have a quiet car now... it still going to be quieter in a week or so when I get the other part fixed, but it's nice to not have my car "sound" like a POS running around now.
Sounds normal.
I think it's a car thing when you fix one thing, something else had to be fixed too.
You can't Just fix the one part. 
Anyway, the "resonator" assembly was like $70 from O'reilleys and they had to order it obviously...
It's got a "heat jacket" instead of a "heat shield" so it said I didn't need to use the existing head shield. The new resonator is a lot smaller, and has an extra set of hangers....unless my car just didn't have the hanger braskets there (or taken off at one time). The old resonator as soon as I stood it upright, a bunch of crap came out of it (rust, etc)...
It looks as if someone had tried to "patch" it before with J.B. weld ot the like and it came off. It's like that on both sides of the resonator.
Now I'm off to order the $30 intermediate pipe!
I think it was bubbling up already, but I made it worse... it's on the other bend as well.
New installed resonator assembly...
That's where the larger of the leaks was coming from... My guess is that if it's not the original resonator, it's the second one... but with 193k miles, who knows...
It's nice to have a quiet car now... it still going to be quieter in a week or so when I get the other part fixed, but it's nice to not have my car "sound" like a POS running around now.
I think it's a car thing when you fix one thing, something else had to be fixed too.