y pipe

Jersey John · Post by **Jersey John** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:19 am

How do I get the Y pipe out of my AWD? I have a couple of broken studs on the exaust manifolds and I cant get the y pipe out of the way to drill them out

. I am about to cut the cross over pipe and weld it back together. Just want to know if there is a easier way before I get cuttin!!

LiftedAWDAstro · Post by **LiftedAWDAstro** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:27 am

You'll have to pull at least 1 of the torsion bars.

meetthespeakers · Post by **meetthespeakers** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:59 am

I was afraid of that, what a crappy design. I let someone else do my cat 2 weeks ago, and I am kind of glad I didn't deal with that.

Jersey John · Post by **Jersey John** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:22 am

That's what I thought

, I think I will just cut the cross over pipe and just weld it back together.

1996astro · Post by **1996astro** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:39 pm

I took mine out in one piece to remove the cat and weld in a nice peice of pipe. This is on my 97 AWD. It took some doing, swearing, and thinking but I got it out. I took the bolts out of the cross member, using a floor jack to hold it. Jacked the front of the van up on the frame, not on the control arms and pryed down on the cross member and stuck a wedge in each side. Then if you pull back and twist and turn it came out. You need to get the van way off the ground. A hoist would be great but I did it with a standard 3 ton floor jack. Its messed up I about cut the thing also. Its like one of those nail puzzles where they are bent a certain way and only come apart just so.

meetthespeakers · Post by **meetthespeakers** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:15 am

Is this how far you had to lift up the van to get the pipe off?

1996astro · Post by **1996astro** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:06 am

No

But thats when I should have done it. When I had the sub frame out and put the new engine in. $\:D/$

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