The truck drove great to church, so this afternoon I drove it to Fantasy Muffler in Spencer because my hangar broke loose from the mufflers. I can weld up an exhaust, but the guy there is far more experienced.
The transmission's shifting nicely, so I'm more comfortable with it, and I decided to romp on it. I gave it the beans and all of the sudden the engine revved with no forward progress. Uh oh, did I make a full-neutral 4L60?
I looked down at the shifter and it was in neutral! The stupid header hit the shift linkage and put me in neutral. Once I got to the muffler shop the guy put my truck on the lift and we looked at it. The flange on the Hedman 69440 full-length headers is right under the shift rod between the frame and transmission. He wasn't willing to touch that, so my solution is going to be putting the truck on jackstands, welding the loose flange to the pipe, and then cutting away at the top of the flange until I have plenty of clearance.
He welded up the broken hangar and hit a spot on the catalytic converter that I didn't get fully welded.
If any of you Oklahoma guys need exhaust work done, he's really hurting for business right now. It's not one of those fancy-schmancy shops that's gonna put 4" mandrel-bent stainless steel and v-band clamps on your truck. He's a gettin' it done kind of shop on the wrong side of town that's been in business since 1963. He does good work way too cheap and won't screw you over like some of the other shops in better locations that have come and gone since he opened.
The transmission's shifting nicely, so I'm more comfortable with it, and I decided to romp on it. I gave it the beans and all of the sudden the engine revved with no forward progress. Uh oh, did I make a full-neutral 4L60?
I looked down at the shifter and it was in neutral! The stupid header hit the shift linkage and put me in neutral. Once I got to the muffler shop the guy put my truck on the lift and we looked at it. The flange on the Hedman 69440 full-length headers is right under the shift rod between the frame and transmission. He wasn't willing to touch that, so my solution is going to be putting the truck on jackstands, welding the loose flange to the pipe, and then cutting away at the top of the flange until I have plenty of clearance.
He welded up the broken hangar and hit a spot on the catalytic converter that I didn't get fully welded.
If any of you Oklahoma guys need exhaust work done, he's really hurting for business right now. It's not one of those fancy-schmancy shops that's gonna put 4" mandrel-bent stainless steel and v-band clamps on your truck. He's a gettin' it done kind of shop on the wrong side of town that's been in business since 1963. He does good work way too cheap and won't screw you over like some of the other shops in better locations that have come and gone since he opened.