Damn weird Northern California jokes...
Glad you found your leaky pipe, but damn that took you a while. What are you guys doing up there in Sonoma Co.? Going to Russian River Brewing I hope.
If it's going to be bandaged like that for more than a week or so I'd recommend getting a decent flex pipe at the junk yard or new. The exhaust will bust through the aluminum in no time.
p.s. clean you engine now. It's dirty