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Originally Posted by Rockyriver
I just ran new exaust on my 300TD and used simple rubber mounted hangers.
I tack welded the hangers on the car and a round metal rod to the pipe. The round metal rod slides in the rubber mount.
It's just exaust and not rocket science, just as long as the pipe is not mounted solid and is on some type rubber hanger where as you have some give all will be well.
The only way I could see me having problems is if the motor mount s broke and the engine
Had a lot more wiggle than usual, and even I think mine would still be fine.
I will take photos of my hangers if I get a chance tonight.
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its not rocket science until you start altering stock usually non replaced items in custom applications.
Then you can overlook something that causes problems, something that usually would be a non issue when redoing a factory exhaust system.
Already ive retained some useful info from this thread, which is the amount of heat expansion that I should have compensated for, and did not when I removed the bellows to mount my downpipe. Even more importantly to me, its a lesson that im going to apply to another project nearing the exhaust manufacturing phase, where I had almost jigged up the same failure. This means a different manifold design for me to keep the factory bellows