Ok. first. anyone notice their posts vanishing lately? I've had several go MIA, including a whole new thread asking the innocent question about the weirdness with the zombie read-only deleted comments thread about Old Kombi's gas mileage.

Maybe this one will vanish too. If this is a moderator's actions without explanation, it makes me think about whether I should send any more money to the BB... Anyway, if anyone knows what's going on, please let me know.


So... I've been driving my 68 about lately, and seem to have my fuel gauge issue and cruddy fuel tank issue corrected. I can finally start to address some other nagging issues.

#1. Seems that my rear brakes lockup very easily. This leads to me squealing my rear tires in traffic and at stop signs, despite my low-key driving.
I'm not sure if this is due to mal-adjusted shoes (note that I have the self-adjusting rear drum brakes), or (and I strongly suspect that) my rear brake limiter may have seized. I have a working spare limiter - polished, sealed, and sitting on a shelf for only a couple months. If that's the issue, I can just swap it out, but I'd like a second opinion on the problem before I have to re-bleed my entire brake system.

Also, while under the rear looking at the limiter, I noticed that in the two weeks since I inspected and licensed the car, my rear exhaust pipe has broken. The long pipe from the manifold back to the muffler is fine, but the connection between the muffler and pipe is broken. It figures that I have a complete spare down pipe and long bit, but no spare muffler, loop, rear muffler can, nor tailpipe.

I've looked about and found a lot of high end stuff at Skandix and IPD, but I'm really not sure what I'd be getting from IPD, or which kit I really need for just the rear part of the stock exhaust.

An alternative is the 2" custom exhaust the JohnMC made for his 71 1800E. I saved it when I chopped up that car, but I'm not sure it would size-up correctly for a 122 Sedan. I was actually saving it for my 1967 122 ES Wagon with B20E and D-jet... But if it's fit right into a sedan, maybe I should use it with my B18B... Any thought or recommendations on exhaust parts??