Wow. Det var en sådan snabb svar! Tack för din vänlighet, Nel.

Okay; I know: Swedish may not be the lingua franca in your neck of the woods, or mine, but I thank you so much for such a speedy reply!

Thank you for your kindness, Nel.

I'll stumble back out into the southern California cold that numbed my fingers so much as I posted my question earlier that I could feel nothing whatever beyond needles and I could barely get a grip on my phone.

Do I understand you to say that
(a) the passenger-side hanger can be deflected outward without damaging it,
and that
(b) the muffler while still attached to the entire assembly
(forward from there all the way up to the head)
not only may be lowered but also may be moved to starboard
(to pull it from the portside hanger)
without damaging any part
of what I had thought should be and remain
a reasonably rigid exhaust assembly?

That surely sounds like the right way to go, Nelson,
but I feel concerned about deflecting that long lever created by
an exhaust assembly attached firmly to the head.

I'd hate to have my 82-year-old neighbor to discover I've hurt her more than helped.

I intend to patch the muffler out in the open, if that seems feasible on closer inspection, then put it back in place.

If that patch fails, I contemplate a "cat back" ( as I think you folks call it) replacement
with an $88 Starla kit from which I would exclude the pipe intended for that which is welded to the converter. My welding skill is nearly non-existent, even if I had the equipment and could use it safely anywhere near a gas tank.

XPEG_656
2220 Sun 19 Mch 2017 PST