{"id":3311,"date":"2017-08-24T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2017-08-24T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:00:59","slug":"attempted-exhaust-hack-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/attempted-exhaust-hack-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted Exhaust Hack Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a hackjob fix you really hope will work ends up not working. Even though this didn&#8217;t work, I took a bunch of pictures so I want to post about it anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3318\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017_08_24_01.jpg\" alt=\"2017_08_24_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My brother&#8217;s CR-V has rusted through the exhaust a few times, and a couple weeks ago the catalytic converter pipe rusted through and broke, causing it to hang down and make the car very loud.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3319\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017_08_24_02.jpg\" alt=\"2017_08_24_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In New York it&#8217;s not legal to use most aftermarket catalytic converters, making it a potentially really expensive repair. I took it to work to see if there was anything I could do. I was hoping it could possibly be welded back together, but there wasn&#8217;t enough metal left to do that with.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3320\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017_08_24_03.jpg\" alt=\"2017_08_24_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had happened to bring a JB Weld Steelstik, which is an epoxy putty. It said it works on exhaust systems, so I decided to give it a shot. I didn&#8217;t expect it to last for a long time, just long enough to get a new converter. I had to both reattach the flange on the back end on it and reinforce the flange on the front end. I let it set for an hour, which is what the package said to do, installed it, and headed for home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3321\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017_08_24_04.jpg\" alt=\"2017_08_24_04\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, just as I reached the road, it broke again. I may have not cleaned the surfaces well enough, or the epoxy just isn&#8217;t meant for total exhaust system reconstruction. By the time I got home I could smell melting epoxy. It has a temperature limit of 300 degrees, and apparently the converter gets hotter than that. This repair attempt was a fail, but now I know what doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a hackjob fix you really hope will work ends up not working. Even though this didn&#8217;t work, I took a bunch of pictures so I want to post about it anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[31,37,55],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-cars","category-in-the-shop","tag-diy","tag-exhaust","tag-rust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}