Parking break cable
 

I went to get new mufflers and my parking break cable is gonna be in the way to run the pipes above the cross member. I think things were modified when they put the sm465 in it. Has anyone run into this before?

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I haven't but I'm tuned it to see what the pros gotta say...good luck.

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I noticed a couple of things in your pictures, the trans is not an SM465, and your crossmember is upside down. Your truck should have come with a catalytic converter, which has a crossmember that drops down low on the driver's side. Originally, the parking brake cable would been attached to the bottom of the frame, and run through the drop. Someone changed the crossmember to an earlier type, and rerouted the cable. I'm not sure what you can do with it in the current configuration.

Your goal is to run the exhaust above the crossmember?

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That was the original goal. I'm thinking now that b/c the headers are long tube that they would hit either way so running the pipes under the crossmember may be the easier way to go.

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That's what I was thinking also, if you want to go over the crossmember you would need some short headers.

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What in the world...why is the crossmember upside down in the first place?

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That's how it was when I got it. To be honest I didn't even know it was upside down. I've been sorting out the little issues as I can.

Does the crossmember being upside down effect anything? I'm gonna flip it over just curious.

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Well, you have the more desirable crossmember since it's the non-converter one. And it has two humps in it, so if you flip it over you will be able to tuck your pipes a little higher.