The truck has long tube headers, not sure of the brand because the previous owner put them on. I don't know much about exhaust, At first I thought it was just a cheap/quick fabrication technique, now I just think it's wrong.
Here is a sketch of what I'm talking about
I thought maybe there was some type of gasket that went inside the pipe flares, but I think this was supposed to be a ball-and-socket connector that was botched.
At the very least, I've learned a bit about exhaust pipes from all this
