Hi all I have just fitted a new exhaust to my type 1 engine thanks to some guidance from Barney. As you can see from the pics, everything lines up fine apart from one of the connections to the heat exchangers. This is how it was with the old exhaust too. I have tried moving things and bending things but to no avail, even thought of using exhaust wrap to bridge the gap....any thoughts??
your bottom clamps not on right either bud , have you loosened every thing on h/e s like i suggested they are bummers these after market jobbies
I couldn't get the clamp to fit over the whole lot - the wire wool gasket thing made it too wide for the clamp!
yeh they are pants , but thats not holding it together like that , you dont need them ring bits reallyas you have swage on the zorst
it is basically cos they are pants , have you tried slackening h/e nuts off other end a tad n get the top one on then a bit of brut force on bottom one take them rings off too it will squash up better then .
Where was it from. can you send it back? the more times we send them back the more we have a chance of someone actually listening to complaints about poor quality control.
I used a empty can of red bull wrapped around the gap, then use the clamp to tighten up. Its the only way with these carp copies.
You will have to take the silencer right off and start again. You have the concave washer the wrong way round and the wrong side of the wire gasket. The wire gasket should be trapped between the flange on the silencer and the loose concave washer on the hx pipe. The clamp keeps all in place and tight. The parts you have will fit, they always do. exhausts aren't precision engineering.
Like zedders said you need to take it apart, I fit it all together with the manifolds loose before tightening it all up
Same here, Each time I've fitted a stock exhaust I've had to fashion a "wrap" cut from a beans tin or similar. Make sure you take the beans out first
This is probably where I've been going wrong . Will try this technique when engine returns from Mr Parry
When you get the exhaust connection sorted, the bit you originally asked about - the pod, that's the top bit, will move along the pipe if you twist it.
the thing is, the fit (or lack of) was exactly the same with the previous exhaust so it could equally be the heat exchangers?
/ Hi Zed - can I confirm that with the concave washers, the smaller diameter part should face outwards from the joint on both sides?
Hi Zed - it does move along however its the wrong trajectory so may have to try the red bull can idea>
