Exhaust Clamps for LT's -
09-01-2015, 12:19 PM
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Exhaust Clamps for LT's -
Hey All,
Just got back from a 3 week vacation and let my father enjoy the car while I was away. Unfortunately whenver I get back from vacation's where I let him drive my car's, there's almost always something waiting for me when I get back. It happend with my A8, it happend with my STI... and now my E.
As soon as I start it up for the first time, I hear a very obvious exhaust leak coming from under the driver's seat area.
A quick google turned up a bunch of potential cracks in/above the cat's as a common source.
Long story short, I got the car up on a lift and it's leaking from a very rusted clamp on the driver's side where the end of my MBH LT's join into the rest of the exhaust. The clamp is stamped 69.9mm.
Since I was in there I checked the remainder of them and one other clamp had a veeeery slight leak as well.
I might as well change all 4 of them out, so what are you guys using? Any ole' AutoZone band clamp, or anything more "heavy duty"?
Are they all 70mm throughout?
Just got back from a 3 week vacation and let my father enjoy the car while I was away. Unfortunately whenver I get back from vacation's where I let him drive my car's, there's almost always something waiting for me when I get back. It happend with my A8, it happend with my STI... and now my E.
As soon as I start it up for the first time, I hear a very obvious exhaust leak coming from under the driver's seat area.
A quick google turned up a bunch of potential cracks in/above the cat's as a common source.
Long story short, I got the car up on a lift and it's leaking from a very rusted clamp on the driver's side where the end of my MBH LT's join into the rest of the exhaust. The clamp is stamped 69.9mm.
Since I was in there I checked the remainder of them and one other clamp had a veeeery slight leak as well.
I might as well change all 4 of them out, so what are you guys using? Any ole' AutoZone band clamp, or anything more "heavy duty"?
Are they all 70mm throughout?
Last edited by mkiv_tdi; 09-01-2015 at 12:22 PM.
