Exhaust Clamps

[daxyz]

Can anyone tell me if there is such a thing as an after-fit exhaust clamp? My ssteel ex syst is in prett sound condition apart from the clamps - which have rotten to next to nothing. Every exhaust manufctr so far has been looking to replace with new system - all I need is the clamps!! But of course these are supplied with half the clamp on each side of the exhaust joint and I can t find a retro-fit clamp. This doesn't seem like an over-complex bit of engineering ....but do they exist??

[Jamo]

Most go faster places sell them, i think demon tweeks flogs them.

Bosal is a make that does them as well.

[Jamo]

Try these guys, http://www.bodyshopwarehouse.co.uk/meta/bosal/

[daxyz]

thanks for this but I think I am being a bit dense - still looks to me like the clamps come as part of the exhaust section - with half the clamp on each - which can then be brought together on either half of the joint to hold the sections together. Doesn't look like there's a retro fit option??? Or am I....as I say....being a bit dense?

[mcandmar]

Are you talking about the joint between the cat and middle section or the downpipe to cat join?

The cat to middle section has a large double clamp, i could'nt find anything suitable so i bought an Audi one again. The universal U clamps will work but they are thicker so under accelleration they hit the metal undertray of the car and vibrate like crazy.

Mark.

[Keeper of The Kitten]

Do you mean the flange that is trapped on the end of a pipe section and has three bolts to couple it to another section?

Usually it can be removed from one end of the pipe but sometimes it is fitted before the end is swaged to form the surface for a sealing ring to seat onto.

__MDC__

[daxyz]

Sorry - just back from a 620 mile round trip to Birmingham - running well!!!!

Yep - that's the one, with the three bolts - it clamps the seperate sections of the exhaust together. As I say - one has rotted away completely and the other is just about there. However at the mo I cant find anyhting to replace these section clamps (I've had to bodge something together to make do). Because the exhaust sections seem to flare out at the ends (in order to marry up with the fat metal washer thing) then you can't just slide another clamp over the pipe ends even when you break the sections at this point. Doesn't seem to be a way to slide the damn things over the other ends as there's a box in the way no matter which way you go from the joint!

I'd have thought that someone out there would have made clamps that can be 'broken open' placed round the exhaust pipe on either side of the joint and then tightened up as normal???

[Jamo]

Sorry - just back from a 620 mile round trip to Birmingham - running well!!!!

Yep - that's the one, with the three bolts - it clamps the seperate sections of the exhaust together. As I say - one has rotted away completely and the other is just about there. However at the mo I cant find anyhting to replace these section clamps (I've had to bodge something together to make do). Because the exhaust sections seem to flare out at the ends (in order to marry up with the fat metal washer thing) then you can't just slide another clamp over the pipe ends even when you break the sections at this point. Doesn't seem to be a way to slide the damn things over the other ends as there's a box in the way no matter which way you go from the joint!

I'd have thought that someone out there would have made clamps that can be 'broken open' placed round the exhaust pipe on either side of the joint and then tightened up as normal???

Eh what you doing in my home town? Got off my land!

[4WheelDrifter]

You sure he's not from Alabama?

[daxyz]

In fact - now that I think about it after a glass or three of wine - if I could get hold of new normal clamps seperately (although god knows from where) could I just hacksaw through at a point half way between two bolts, split the damp things open by swiveling round the third bolt, then slip it round the pipe and bolting together as normal?? Hey presto (perhaps?) Even if the concensus is that this would work I'm still stuck for a source of these clamps as far as I can see - unless I buy whole exhaust sections, and then I might as well replace the whole damn thing.

[daxyz]

Not Alabama my dear friends - Glasgow! Altho strangely similar.