Exhaust

[Anonymous]

My 92 MTX had a bad exhaust leak when I bought It and drove 3hrs back home on the way back up after a while during the trip back ...I started to feel the car slowing down so I dropped it in a lower gear to give it more rpm and power but the exhaust began to have gotten louder so I pulled over and looked underneath a saw that the catback pipe that connects to the Y-pipe has completely came apart right the ****** and doughnut gasket that joins at the Y-pipe so I began to drive the car home and it started backfire a couple times but was able to make it home ...now for some strange reason I went to start it up yesterday and it's not turning over ...could that have something to with the exhaust being broke?

 

[sperold]

No.
Do all the usual things - battery, cable ends, other starter cable connections, including that small wire on the positive side, solenoid, starter, alternator.

 

[Devin]

The car can start without any exhaust piping. I wonder if it somehow ducked some pieces into the cylinders?

 

[luigisho]

Piggybacking on Devin's worse case scenario...
Is the starter able to engage and turn the motor and it doesn't start, or is it just stuck? Can you turn the motor by hand?