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Date:         Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:32:15 -0400
Reply-To:     "Royston, Jerry" <gmr@OBPA.USDA.GOV>
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From:         "Royston, Jerry" <gmr@OBPA.USDA.GOV>
Subject:      Need to replace Muffler and Tailpipe on '91 Westy
Comments: cc: "yoelandtina@GMAIL.COM" <yoelandtina@GMAIL.COM>
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Just a quick story on this.  I had the same problem over the summer when my tailpipe finally rusted off and I went to my local Midas shop.  They wanted something like $250 to replace the muffler and pipe.  I told him to just weld on a new tailpipe since the muffler was still OK.  When my new tailpipe fell off about 2 weeks later during a road trip I went to a muffler shop in Asheville, NC and the guy went in the back and brought out a nearly perfect match for the original muffler.  He then bent a new tailpipe and welded everything together.  Total charge was about $65.  All is fine and quiet. If you're near Asheville, I could tell you where to go.


Gerry Royston
Bethesda, MD
1987 Westy
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