Personally, I say yes to low stress! I'm now brainstorming on how to make the rubber isolating pieces. (they are $$ per piece new) I wonder if two pieces of rubber, each with fasteners embedded, could be bonded well enough to withstand the heat and vibrations. These would be placed between the brackets on the muffler and engine block. A while back, Jim Akiba had made mention of a company called "Smooth-On". They can supply kits for making polyurethane or rubber parts, but I can't wait on them to mail me the stuff, so am looking for other ideas. Neil. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:45 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 02:24 PM 9/24/2008, pdooley wrote: >> >> You can make it stronger with gussets and braces and larger radiuses, etc. >> but that will just make it last a little longer till it fails. (and >> transmit >> more vibration into the cab.) > > Oh aye, nothing to say about that. The boxer exhaust systems are > rigidly mounted to the engines with struts everywhere, but I've never > seen a diesel one. Clearly if there's a flex joint then there's > expected to be movement between engine and exhaust, and that's where > the rubber comes in. > > But I'm a crusader about stress concentrations (waves flag). > > :-) > David > > > -- > David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation" >
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