Originally Posted by SwampYankee

After tiring of an annoying rattle at idle, I tracked it down to the exhaust hangers. Missing two and the other two looked stretched. Replaced the four that I could see and the rattle went away. Now I've got heavier "pounding" under acceleration which I surmise is from no-longer existing exhaust buffers.

It appears that there should be two, one on each end of the muffler. Is there one further up in the vicinity of the resonator? Is there enough flex in the system to replace the buffers without dropping it completely? I don't have a lift but I've got ramps and jack-stands so I'm hoping I can get enough clearance by removing the hangers and pulling down on the tailpipe.

I assume the "nipple" on the top (in theory) pops into a hole in a bracket.

If someone has the right combination of key words that would bring a thread on this subject up on the "Search" function, I'd be happy to put them in because none of mine did.