Date:         Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:39:47 -0800
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Muffler clamp question
Comments: To: Angus Gordon <birdworks@gmail.com>
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  Yeah, something like you show on your Picassa link.   That would work
perfect for me.
 I recently took another piece of aluminum and cut it to fit between the
bracket and the hose clamps, bridging on past the bracket and part way
around the muffler...that seems to be helping...it eases the 'sharp' corner
the clamps had to endure as they went over the bracket and onto the oval
muffler body.  My last clamp failure may have been 'stress' left over from
being on there without the extra shim..

   I'll keep looking.   A clamp with material about twice as thick (strong?)
as a regular hardware store ss hose clamp would be adequate.   I really
don't like the idea of having the header attached to the motor and the
exhaust pipes attachted to the body....the two move independently of each
other as the  motor mounts flex, and there is some noise and vibration
transfer between the exhaust and the body even through those flexy
hangers...I think they got it right when they did the diesel exhaust...but I
simply need a way to clamp my 15"X8" oval SS Magnaflow muffler...

  I'll find something...even if I have to go to the marine hardware and buy
a fancy fire extinguisher mounting bracket or something..
  Don Hanson

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Angus Gordon <birdworks@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  that perforated metal strapping you get
>> at the hardware or the lumber yard...that seems like it's no stronger than
>> a
>> ss hose clamp.
>>
>
>
>  <
> http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/f9HC3fTBKWs1W3WV6-zEqbT70df3xXNEUCLhuDVDxc8?feat=directlink
> >
>
>
> Well I looked under the Syncro this morning Don, and that clamp is still
> there. Six years, ten months and counting.
>
>
> Angus
>