Cheap way is to wrap a beer can around it and clamp it with hose clamps. Did
that on and old chevy I owned and talked to the next owner three years later
and he told me he like my fix that was still there. LOL

"Bill B. Johnson" <billbjohnson555@nospamhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> In article <br2vbu$5m9$1@newsreader.wustl.edu>, "XG" <gungxu@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having a small leaking in head exhaust pipe (A pipe I think the
mechanic
> > called so). Most of it is still good but have some leaking in the soft
> > region. It looks like there is some kind of metal matrix wrapped on it.
This
> > leaking should relate to the exhaust smell in the car when stopping in
the
> > traffic light (sure not from other cars cause this happens in the
parking
> > lot). Since the whole pipe is quite expensive, is there some kind of
tape
> > that can endure high temperature and I can just wrap this soft region to
> > block the leaking for a while? Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> I advise you to take it to several muffler shops and request that they cut
> out the defective section of pipe and just replace the defective section
> and leave everything else as is. If the muffler shop supervisor refuses
> this request--say "thanks anyway" and find a muffler shop supervisor that
> will do what you want. A tape repair will not solve the problem except on
> a very short term basis.