The front exhaust pipe bracket - the rigid kinda triangular piece which bolts to the transmission and has a flange to surround the pipe - was broken at the bolts. I fabricated a "reinforcing plate" to supplement the original, but am wondering if I should use it as is, or use it with a piece of metal strapping around the pipe to give a kind of flexible mount until I get new motor/transmission mounts? I would hate to have the pipe itself crack, especially as I just installed a new converter and have had my fill of exhaust work for a while.
The engine does not move around "a lot", but I figured it must have moved enough to crack the bracket - unless the bracket just always fails on our cars.
Anyone encounter this before - and your fix ?
Thanks -
Tom M.
Front Exhaust Pipe Bracket
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Mac -
Thanks, and it does make sense.
I suppose this must have been a problem with this engine, whence the band-aids of the manifold's front bracket to the block and the pipe's rear bracket to the transmission.
Tom M.
Thanks, and it does make sense.
I suppose this must have been a problem with this engine, whence the band-aids of the manifold's front bracket to the block and the pipe's rear bracket to the transmission.
Tom M.
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"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit."
T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
Mark Twain