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Nothing too exciting here, but good progress was made. Ragan came over last week and helped with some exhaust and radiator work. No pictures, sorry.

After a couple of trips to advance auto, we thought we had the right exhaust tubing to connect the y-pipe to the muffler, but it was just too big or too small each time. But, after trial and error, the muffler did fit directly onto the y-pipe (which works better anyway). Still to come is the piping of the rest of the exhaust out the back from the muffler. Putting the muffler back on made a huge noise difference, so I am sure our neighbors are pleased.

Getting it to run quieter also enabled us to do the stop-leak for the radiator (truck has to run idle for 15 min to cycle it through). So we drained the radiator, poured in the stop-leak, and then the new radiator fluid. Then it ran idle for 15 minutes... a successful event in and of itself!

For what it's worth, there's nothing wrong with working on a truck while listening to Christmas music...