Read the post about Transit Winds Starla Header being too low. Well last year when I installed new Starla from the Exhaust Manifold back found that my system was really tight on the up side. This was not my finest moment of installation in fact. But I did finally get all in there.

Had to hold the back side of the first muffler (resonator) down to get the under the axle pipe on there and clamped. It was not that big a deal at the time, but there was a good amount of pressure applied.

A few weeks ago it started the rattle at idle. With the BB sound deadening did not bother me all that much and I put it down to they just rattle. Part of the wait is there is a high pressure dome over Houston and the temps have hit the mid 90's with high humidity for several days in a row (heat index of 105). After the 32 mile drive home in the 95 degree heat, then crawling under a car with a warm exhaust while the skeeters kept me company lead me to wait on investigating the noise.

This past Saturday on an Ikea run started to get a roar from the back. Glanced under there and did not see anything and put it off until cooler weather again, besides the wife wanted those two boxes assembled.

Yesterday my tailpipe sheered completely off just behind the first muffler. Like it was cut with a saw almost I have to take a picture of just how straight and smooth this was. The break was just past where the two sections meet towards the axle.

That upwards bind caused the pipe to stress and over the last 20K miles in the last year form a stress crack and then broke off completely.

Have a 2 1/2 pipe filling the gap with two muffler clamps impacted up at 150PSI and it actually is leak free and not rattling. But that is not going to stay that way very long.

Have to figure out how to get the upward stress out of the front section or this will happen again. Going to order another pipe and see how to prevent this.

Any ideas how to bend that pipe down a bit?

Regards,

Paul