Mike Mason wrote:
>
> While you all are under your TR6's looking to see if your kidneys or
> brake systems have been harvested ;-) would you look at your exhaust
> system, assuming that they didn't take that too, and tell me how it's
> hooked on?
>
> The PO had a Monza system screwed to the bottom of various and asundry
> things. I just ordered a stainless, sport system from MOSS that came
> with a diagram that tells me nothing. It looks like there should be a
> bracket about half-way back on the transmission, although there does not
> seem to be anywhere on the tranny to hook it. Does that one just get
> screwed to the floor panel? Sounds like it would make a terrible noise.
>
> I finally figured out that maybe some of the u-clamps in the middle may
> be hooked to something to support the long runs. I guess that is what
> the little L-brackets are for.
>
> At the very back of the system, the brackets align with the back valance,
> or at least they seem to. What in the heck are they hooked to? I'm not
> going to drill holes in the valance!
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...by the way, I hate exhaust
> systems! But anaything will be better than sucking gas like I was with
> the old system. :-)
>
> Michael, St. Louis or thereabouts
Michael,
I assume the TR6 shares the same type exhaust hangers as the Spits. If
so, the hanger actually bolts to the transmission using one of the
tranny bolts where the tailpiece bolts onto the transmission body.
The hanger is a piece of twisted metal which drops down and bolts to the
clamp.
Joe Curry '63 Spit
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