When I installed a complete Falcon exhaust I put in new hangers. What I
noticed (after removing the CRAP the PO had hacked in) was that the front
muffler hanger rubber strap was too short and it pulled the muffler up,
causing the tail pipes to exit at a slight angle and the muffler was angled
also. A simple fix (which I never got to before selling the car) is to go to
NAPA and get a longer piece of rubber and just replace the rubber part.
A piece of conveyor belt works great also if you happen to have access to
that sort of thing..
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of STEVE KIRSIS
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 11:09 AM
To: Robert M. Lang
Cc: 6pack
Subject: Re: exhaust straps
Robert, as they say in the guinness (sp.) ad "BRILLIANT", what a list.
thanks,Steve Kirsis.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
To: "STEVE KIRSIS" <sakirsis@txucom.net>
Cc: "6pack" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: exhaust straps
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, STEVE KIRSIS wrote:
>
>> hey gang, has anyone had any problems with the hard rubber straps that
>> attach
>> to the muffler from the frame? both straps i received from TRF are about
>> an
>> inch short. these are the two hanger straps on either side of the
>> muffler. i
>> am using all the parts supplied in the kits from TRF so they should fit.
>> There
>> is nothing unusual about the system as i have kept it very original.
>> thanks
>> for any advice. steve kirsis, ' 70 damson, ' 76 french blue.
>
> These straps were always a B-I-T-C-H to install... especially the front
> one!
>
> I dumped those years ago and wound up using slightly modified universal
> muffler hangers for the job. Those lasted forrever... well, 'till I went
> to the "temporary" Monza system eight years ago.
>
> If the straps are too short, cut them in half and then use a metal strap
> of the appropriate length and use the modified strap pieces as "washers".
> This gets you the strength of the steel and the sound isolation of the
> rubber part.
>
> The stock installation of the muffler was pretty pathetic. When the cars
> we new, the muffler straps would break pretty much once a year, and once
> you had the dealer install a new system it wouldn't last as long before
> the straps broke (again).
>
> It's 10 or 15 degrees F outside right now. I can't tell you how many times
> I had to crawl under my Dad's TR6 to fix the straps on his first TR6 when
> it was 10 or 15 F outside! We didn't have a garage, either. Makes my hands
> hurt just thinking about it.
>
> regards,
> rml
>
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