Today was not what you would call a good day :(

After work myself and two of the techs were I work installed the bassani cat back I got from mark @ lightingforce. Everything installed fine and it sounded great.

I pulled out on the road nailed it first and when it hit second I heard the what sounded like it had a huge exhaust leak like one of the joints seperated. As soon as i heard it I flipped a U trun right there in the street when I heard the scaping sound and then I felt the right rear of the truck lift up. My right rear tire was know sitting on my nearly $700.00 cat back. We jacked the truck up and pulled the cat back out and I drove it the 200 hundred yards to the dealership were we reinstalled my stock cat back. The tips are crushed and two of the hangers are pretty bent up but the truck did not recieve any damage.

I am not sure how this happend, we tightened the **** out of the supplied clamps but it still came off. I am not sure what i am gonna do now, I probably going to have to buy some bassani tips and take the whole thing to a muffler shop and have them weld it in.

I attached a pic.

Bob <<< If i did not have bad luck I would not have any.

 

700 bucks for a catback??? DAMN!!!

Anyway sorry to hear that dude, that certainly sucks.

Andy G

 

im sorry

 

Bob,I'm sorry it went sour on you.I know how excited you were about the catbacks.That really sucks.Good thing it was only the tips.

 

That s*cks...

 

wow that realy hurts wooow .......try borla !!!! lol j/k no to be a *** but i allways tell guys who get cat back's to weld and use stanless weld's it's super strong and will will never! blow off...... so hope you have good luck next time nice tips to !!!

 

Sorry to hear about the mishap. That stinks! Is any of the pieces salvagable, can you just replace the tips?

 

Thanks guys.

I was going to have it welded tommorro, I should have known better, I was just real excited to have it on the truck.

Bob << really depressed

 

Bob,

Wow! Sorry about your misfortune but thanks for posting it. It might just save a lot of us a good bit of misery. Mine (when I get them) will be welded for sure now! Thanks again, and good luck.

Chikenears

 

Oh man! I think Im gonna be sick! Sorry to hear the bad news. We all knew how excited you were about the install. Ill probably order mine next week and you can bet your azz Ill have them tack welded in place!!

 

Bob I feel so bad for you. I feel like throwing up. I hope you can get everything back to normal within reasonable cost.

 

Sorry to hear about that Tompkins.....I wonder what happened?

My system installed flawlessy and have not encountered any troubles....... A $700 dollar ouch indeed!

 

DOAH!

 

What a bummer! I have been considering putting the Bassani cat-backs on, and at least I, and the rest of us here, now know that we WILL weld these things on before we hit the street. Thanks much for the update.