Exhaust tips keep coming loose

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Apr 1, 2004 | 10:47 PM

DropTopBigBlock

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Exhaust tips keep coming loose

I've got a '71 with stock exhaust, and one of the tips keeps vibrating loose, no matter how much I tighten the little u-shaped yoke thing where it goes into the muffler. Any advice on keeping it in place? Loctite?
Please help!

Apr 2, 2004 | 07:13 AM

Aflac

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Re: Exhaust tips keep coming loose (DropTopBigBlock)

maybe try pop riveting in?

Apr 2, 2004 | 09:00 AM

SharkAttack

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Re: Exhaust tips keep coming loose (DropTopBigBlock)

Have you tried brand new stainless split washers on both sides of the U-bolts?

Apr 2, 2004 | 01:24 PM

HDFLH67

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Re: Exhaust tips keep coming loose (DropTopBigBlock)

I welded the back three pieces and eliminated those clamps all together!

Apr 2, 2004 | 01:48 PM

stingraymaniac

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Re: Exhaust tips keep coming loose (HDFLH67)

isnt it most simple to weld them? :smash:

Apr 2, 2004 | 03:57 PM

Willis

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Re: Exhaust tips keep coming loose (stingraymaniac)

:iagree: Weld It, A couple of tack welds will work wonders

Apr 2, 2004 | 04:47 PM

DropTopBigBlock

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Re: Exhaust tips keep coming loose (Willis)

Welding may be the way to go: even when I get the tip in, it rotates around in the pipe, and looks fowl-eyed. I'll try the split washers, and if that doesn't work, well, time for the torch!

thanks!

Apr 8, 2004 | 03:44 PM

DropTopBigBlock

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Re: Exhaust tips keep coming loose (DropTopBigBlock)

Finally got it, guys: once I figured out the U-shaped clamp was nothing but a hanger (amazing what you figure out when you crawl under these things!), I lined up the little divot'n'groove arrangement in the pipes and tapped it in with a mallet: no problem now.

Thanks for all the help!