So I finally brought the S-10 into Bay One yesterday, so today became day one of the yearly grind. First thing to do was to get it off the ground so up on the 5 tons it went. At notch three, they create just enought height that a body can slither around under the unit and see what is to be seen.
Right now the drain plug is still out of the oil pan. I have new plugs and o-rings waiting for pickup tomorrow in my travels.
What you see above is what is left of the passenger's side exhaust system post muffler. ROTTEN doesn't begin to describe what I found when I started checking it over. I knew going in that I had one pipe that had suffered a blowout somewhere along its length; the exhaust note was telling me that. However, I wasn't sure which side it was until Sunday morning when I lit it off to let it warm up a little before moving it and noticed a definite lack of exhaust coming out of the forward dump.
For those of you in "HUH? Wtf" mode, my S-10 has true duals from the head pipes back. Dual cats, H-pipe, dual mufflers and dual pipes to just after the rear end where they both dump out the passenger side. Having one on the driver's side wasn't an option; gas tank sits squarely in the road. Total elephant and no lettuce to induce it to move. Last year I did the driver's pipe and replaced the whole thing from the muffler back. At that point the passenger's looked to be still serviceable but during the winter it started to get loud, louder, more louder...........you get the idea. I knew it wasn't ahead of the mufflers because the O-2 sensors weren't complaining, so.
Next step is a trip to the local big box automotive store to see if they have the correct OD in exhaust pipe that I need, plus a trip up to the mezzanine to see what is hiding up there. Bother.
Nick