I'm assuming you need to reuse the smaller tube.
If I had enough room, I would remove the clamp, then just carefully hit the larger pipe with the right angle grinder until I got to the inner pipe.

If you need both pipes, I would care fully grind out the weld with a die grinder.

Although after 6 kids, I have a lot of patience to do slow tedious things.

 

Yes, I need to retain the smaller pipe. The larger piece is actually the muffler... The smaller piece will slide right in the new mufflers, provided I can get it out. I might need to go get some more discs for my die grinder and be really careful. I think I only have the one disc it came with. Thanks Noobs!

 

That's going to take a little bit of time doing it the way you want to. It can be done with patience....quite a bit of that.

I'd opt for the sawzall personally. Convert it to a quick change set up if I was keeping the vehicle. Perhaps integrate a couple Torco clamps. You can butt joint w/Torcos. It's just another way.

 

Once those muffler clamps bend/groove the pipes together that way, - like they are. It can be a mother getting those to come apart. You may have to resort to a few relief cuts to get those old mufflers off.

 

So, last night I was out changing the oil in my daughters Escape. My neighbor stopped by for about 20 minutes. Just making conversation, I asked "how's work?". He tells me "oh, they sent me home yesterday". I asked why, and he said "Covid". But he said he's had 3 negative tests, but his work claims he was positive. So... now I may or may not have been exposed. He had just been out shopping.

And this is why Utah had nearly 70,000 cases this past week. Nobody cares about anyone else.

 

Next door neighbor started texting me, so he's awake. I guess I am good to go out in the garage and make some noise.

Wish me luck!

 

Sound clip later ?

 

Yes... it sounds badazz! I'll fast track a video on this one. I made 173 trips to HF, AZ, and O'Reilly today. Need to take a bunch back.

At one point I decided I was going to just do axle dumps. Spent 4 or 5 hours trying to make it work, and then went back to plan C. I knew the tips weren't going to line up the way they should, and so I explored the axle dump idea... then said to hell with the tips. It's getting a GT bumper without cutouts on it anyway.

Stay tuned!

 

I took just a snippet out of the video, but I'll hopefully have the full meal deal up tomorrow. I love the way it sounds... I want to drop the idle though. It revs way easier now. I meant to get my flashlight in the old mufflers to look for a blockage, but I was too excited.

 

Hahaaaa....Nice!

Superbious!