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Exhausting

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  The exhaust has been winding me up for a while. I don't really like the flick up style tip despite it being a period cool mod. I also do not like the way it likes to fall apart at random when I am driving it or at the very least blowing at any given opportunity. A few attempts to remedy this hadn't gone far enough so it was time to drop the lot and start again. So on jacks the car went again and back under the car I slid. The exhaust was removed from the resonator back, cleaned and reassembled. During the time I have owned the car I have replaced the last remaining two rubber mounts with new ones of varying designs. Big thick chunky mounts don't really fit over the loops and the rubber rings are a bit long and flimsy. Something more resembling the genuine mounts do a shockingly better job but that varies depending on where in the system I was trying to fit. Disassemble was carried out with a Ryobi rattle gun which made short work of all of the fasteners. The main change I