Well for exhaust donuts i think just about anything can beat the copper house wiring the PO used to hold the exhaust in place..... that being said i have also seen where people have said they have gotten a couple hundred miles out of some junkie brands..... i was thinking about cutting some out of a tire sidewall, i still may

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"NEW" 1984 300D TD needs some love

This site carries exhaust hangers for your car, its $4.50 each for the donuts for Mercedes OE, the larger hanger is $20 from Mercedes, or $9.25 from a 4 star aftermarket brand. Tire sidewall might work but the actual part would work better.

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Current: 1975 450SEL, 83 300D, 88 Yugo GVX, 90 300D OM603 swap, 91 F150 4.6 4v swap, 93 190E Sportline LE 3.0L M104 swap, 93 190E Sportline LE Megasquirt, 03 Sprinter, 06 E500 4Matic wagon.

my thought on the sidewall were the fibers would help to keep it from just coming apart

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"NEW" 1984 300D TD needs some love

If you have sidewall available immediately, no reason not to try it, but I personally would try elastic cord if I wasn't going to use the actual part. Wrapping elastic cord and giving it a good knot should be easier than cutting a correct size donut out of sidewall.

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Current: 1975 450SEL, 83 300D, 88 Yugo GVX, 90 300D OM603 swap, 91 F150 4.6 4v swap, 93 190E Sportline LE 3.0L M104 swap, 93 190E Sportline LE Megasquirt, 03 Sprinter, 06 E500 4Matic wagon.

my goodness....Really? The effort & time required to do this is like more than the money you'd need to pay for a quality aftermarket hanger.




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My vote goes for FEQ axles. Even though they are Chinese made, they are a really acceptable product for the money. I've had zero problems with this brand.

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[GONE] - 1995 Mercedes E300 Diesel - 130k miles - Smoke Silver (702) over Mushroom leather (265) - Bladder blasting, coast-to-coast work machine.

FEQ is nearly identical (if not coming out of the same factories) as APA / URO. All three are junk. It's not likely you'll get more than 2 years / 24kmi out of their axle shafts, compared to the typical 25 years / 250kmi (or more) from the OE shafts. For most axle shafts, just get a good used one from a junkyard that has the boots intact and no play in the joints.

It's not like I have to "tool up" to try this, there are hangers that use martial like sidewall, that's what gave me the idea.

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"NEW" 1984 300D TD needs some love

Well why not ask a moderator about this if you're really bothered?

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

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