Advice on replacing 94-97 Accord muffler? Dealing with rubber hangers?

Central Texas? That makes sense.

We get ice on the roads here about once every 3 or 4 years, and then
they drop sand instead of salt, so the two mufflers have probably never
encountered salt at all.
This Accord was my grandma's car, I don't think it even made a trip to
the coast. I have owned it for about a month now.

I had the top down on my non-Honda vehicle yesterday, I think it reached
70 degrees, but I will pay for it starting in June when the heat wave
begins again.

I didn't know that, buy come to think of it, I don't remember the
exhaust ever receiving repairs on my parent's '94 Toyota Camry with
173,000 miles.
I just replaced the neutral safety switch and the harmonic balancer on
that car, and brakes are next, but the exhaust looks good.

Thanks Tegger,

Pat

 

Texas pretty much explains it. In the 37 years I've been in Texas (El Paso,
Houston, and Dallas) I've had to replace one muffler & no pipes. That was
on a '91 Mazda pickup at age 11 yr & 150,000 miles. Mufflers are just not
an issue here.

 

Texas pretty much explains it. In the 37 years I've been in Texas (El Paso,
Houston, and Dallas) I've had to replace one muffler & no pipes. That was
on a '91 Mazda pickup at age 11 yr & 150,000 miles. Mufflers are just not
an issue here.

 

Not true. TxDOT uses the same chemical(s), that other states use and
the only saving grace is that it only occurs a very few times a year,
(at least in the Austin area). The days of just using plain sand are
long gone.

JT

 

Not true. TxDOT uses the same chemical(s), that other states use and
the only saving grace is that it only occurs a very few times a year,
(at least in the Austin area). The days of just using plain sand are
long gone.

JT

 

Whereas our roads are bathed in salt constantly from November to May.

The salt corrodes the hell out of anything metallic, but does make the
roads /considerably/ safer than they would be otherwise.

 

Whereas our roads are bathed in salt constantly from November to May.

The salt corrodes the hell out of anything metallic, but does make the
roads /considerably/ safer than they would be otherwise.

 

Do the other states use a mixture of sand and salt, or just salt? I
remember sand on the road here, but honestly, I have no idea what has
been added to it.

As far as frequency, though, we do not normally get icy roads here a few
times a year.

That frequency has probably happened before, but in the 24 years that I
have been driving in Austin, the roads usually only freeze over about
once out of every 2 to 4 years, or about 3 on average.

Not trying to be being argumentative, but that has been my observation.
Of course, almost the entire city shuts down when this happens, but it
is still like bumper cars out on the roads when they get icy.

Oh yeah, is the the same "Grumpy AuContraire" from austin.general? It
has been a while.......

Pat

 

The one time I have been stranded by snowy/icy weather was a
near-blizzard in Southern Arizona, on the way back to Texas from Las Vegas.

It was about 40 miles from the Mexico border, and was the worst
snowstorm there in over 40 years. I saw no de-icing materials on the
road at all.
With summer tires on the car that were treacherous on ice, we made a
quick exit.

That was fun, there were many 18-wheelers, ands lots of other vehicles
off the road all over the place.
We wisely decided to hunkered down at one of the few vacant motel rooms
until the worst of it was over.

Pat

 

so, you "quit playing" with others? who could possibly be the ONE
common factor in all your other "games" given that it's not me???

 

so, you "quit playing" with others? who could possibly be the ONE
common factor in all your other "games" given that it's not me???

 

It depends.

North-eastern states (and Canadian provinces) use salt mixed with sand.
This mixture is required due to the type of winter weather received by that
area. Other areas tend to favor straight sand.

If the weather is too cold, salt doesn't work. Too much snow, it doesn't
work. Too infrequent snow/ice, there's no point in keeping the
infrastructure required to store and apply salt.

Some areas (including ours) have experimented with beet juice. No I am not
kidding. It's quite expensive compared to salt, and must be applied BEFORE
the snow falls, which really limits its practicality.

 

They get /snow/ in Southern Arizona, 40 miles from Mehhheeco?? But that's
where all the rust-free cars come from!

 

Yeah, it was a quarter of an inch accumulation, melted instantly, but it was
still the worst snow storm in recorded history. When the cold front
blew through ten residents froze to death as temperatures fell
below 60.

 

Phoo. What wimps. At 60 we North-easterners are sunning ourselves in
Adirondack chairs with frosty beers close to hand.

 

Magnesium chloride... Salty stuff.

On the average, two or three icy road events per year. Worse now since
average temperatures have been falling over the past few years.

Yes, Austin native drivers are pretty pathetic.

Yep, same one.. Stirring the pot where required.

JT

 

Sand is always used along with chemicals except here in Texas where they
use small rocks...

JT

(From the Land of Cracked Windshields)

 

Yeah, it can occur on rare occasion and you can bet that AZ-DOT doesn't
have squat for snow handling equipment in that part of the state...

JT

 

I remember flying into Honolulu once for a weekend (away from Kwajalein)
and a cold front was passing through with temperatures in the low 60's.

Hilarious!

JT

 

And thus it was said that the world was a giant fruitcake with all kinds
of varieties of nuts.......

<G>

JT