Robert A. Alexander wrote:

I bought a '93 Ford E-300 15-passenger, 351, dual air, monster van when
my five daughters were smaller, for traveling the 800miles to see the
"Folks" and when the exhaust system crashed, the local Maxi-Muffler dude
talked me into letting him install an aluminum system, which, ten years
later, was still going strong.<snip>

Just curious, how can the system be still going strong ten years later if the van is a '93? If my math is right, your van is only 5 years, right? Got some kinda ancient calendar, over there?

PerL