[Healeys] rubber exhaust mounts

[john spaur]

I think the problem with the stock muffler hangers is inherent in the design.

I designed new muffler mounts for the BT7. They replace the front one 
where the exhaust pipes meet the muffler and the back one where the 
pipes hold up the muffler. They use the existing bolt holes and some 
currently produced stock muffler hanger parts. However, one does have 
to have portions of the metal hangers fabricated and a rod needs to 
be welded to the muffler for the front hanger. They can be installed 
and removed easily. Another benefit is the rear one can be removed 
and the muffler will rotate downward while the front one is left in 
place. I have not driven the car yet but I did start the car and they 
did not fall off and there did not seem to be any undesirable vibration.

I will send some pictures to John Sim's in the next few days.

John, thank you for hosting all of the Healey information on your web site.

John Spaur
San Jose, CA
'62 BT7

At 10:20 AM 1/13/2013 -0500, warthodson at aol.com wrote:
>Yes, everyone I know has had trouble with the rubber exhauast mounts. I am
>reasonably sure we have purchased them from most of the suppliers, even some
>suppliers who claim theirs are superior. If there is a source of good ones I
>would also like to know.
>Gary Hodson
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry Varley varley at cosmos.net.au