More Maintenance

 This afternoon I re-packed the exhaust. I bought the wadding almost a year ago but had been putting it off as it was bound to be a pig of a job & I looked deep into the engine bay at the rusty bolt on the clamp with some trepidation. But with my magic ratchet & enough extension bars to reach right out of the car it came undone easily, then the clamp moved off the outer pipe easily.

I undid the nut holding the tailpipe onto it's rubber mount easily, but the exhaust wouldn't move. I applied a little WD40, but it still seemed to be stuck, so I inserted  breaker bar up it's tailpipe & pulled - was that some rotation? Yes it was, with a wiggle it came off the car & I set about opening the can.

This was pretty much the same story, I drilled the rivets, it didn't move, I gave it a squirt & a tap & off it came.

So it was a comparatively simple job to re-fill it with fluff & put it all back together.